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Yemen, devastado por la guerra y la pobreza, recibe sus primeras vacunas anticovid

País recibió el primer lote de 360.000 dosis de vacunas contra el coronavirus, gracias a la iniciativa Covax.

Employees transport boxes containing vials of the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine (a version of the vaccine produced in India) against the coronavirus, upon their arrival at the airport of Yemen's southern port city of Aden, on March 31, 2021. - War-torn Yemen received the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines today, the UN children's agency said, a week after the country's coronavirus committee warned of a public health "emergency".
The AstraZeneca doses arrived in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen's de facto capital, where the internationally recognised government is based after being routed from Sanaa in the north by Huthi rebels in 2014. (Photo by Saleh OBAIDI / AFP)
Employees transport boxes containing vials of the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine (a version of the vaccine produced in India) against the coronavirus, upon their arrival at the airport of Yemen's southern port city of Aden, on March 31, 2021. - War-torn Yemen received the first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines today, the UN children's agency said, a week after the country's coronavirus committee warned of a public health "emergency". The AstraZeneca doses arrived in the southern port city of Aden, Yemen's de facto capital, where the internationally recognised government is based after being routed from Sanaa in the north by Huthi rebels in 2014. (Photo by Saleh OBAIDI / AFP) SALEH OBAIDI
Empleados transportan las primeras vacunas que arribaron al aeropuerto de Yemen, en la ciudad portuaria de Aden. Foto: AFP. (SALEH OBAIDI/AFP)

Yemen, país devastado por la guerra y escenario de una gravísima crisis humanitaria, recibió el primer lote de 360.000 dosis de vacunas contra el coronavirus, gracias al dispositivo Covax, anunció el miércoles el Fondo de la ONU para la Infancia (Unicef).

El cargamento de 360.000 dosis de AstraZeneca llego a Adén (sur), capital provisional del gobierno reconocido por la comunidad internacional, y forma parte del total de “1,9 millones de dosis que Yemen tendría que recibir en 2021”, indicó Unicef en un comunicado.

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