The first reports of disarray are also emerging from hospitals in South Africa, which has its continent’s most developed economy. South Africa has more than a third of Africa’s confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 138,000. Most poor countries took action early on. But since the beginning of the pandemic, poor and conflict-ravaged countries have been at a major disadvantage. Mired in civil war for the past five years, Yemen was already home to the world’s worst humanitarian crisis before the virus hit.

Source: ABC News June 29, 2020 07:25 UTC