Cholera infects 500,000 people

An outbreak of cholera in Yemen has killed 2,000 people and infected an estimated 500,000, the World Health Organisation has said.

Half the country’s health facilities are out of service, including many that were bombed by the coalition.

Government workers, including medics and garbage collectors, have not received their salaries in nearly a year, further hindering efforts to combat the outbreak. “Yemen’s health workers are operating in impossible conditions,” said the WHO’S director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. “Thousands of people are sick, but there are not enough hospitals, not enough medicines, not enough clean water. These doctors and nurses are the backbone of the health response - without them we can do nothing.”