FILE - In this Dec. 1, 2020, file photo, refugees who fled the conflict in the Ethiopia's Tigray ride a bus going to the Village 8 temporary shelter, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Hamdayet, eastern Sudan. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The United Nations fears “massive community transmission” of COVID-19 in Ethiopia’s troubled Tigray region, fueled by displacement and the collapse of health services, as humanitarian workers finally begin to access the region two months after fighting began. “Only five out of 40 hospitals in Tigray are physically accessible,” the new U.N. report issued Thursday says. While its rate of daily cases has declined in recent weeks, officials have not said whether they have been receiving any data from the Tigray region. The report also says the Tigray region remains volatile.

Source: Ethiopian News January 08, 2021 09:00 UTC