(MENAFN) As medications run short and hospital wards burst, Yemenis are resorting to old-fashioned herbal remedies to guard themselves against COVID-19 in a country broken by years of battle.
Yemen has so far officially registered fewer than 1,000 infections, with 257 mortalities, but most clinics are ill-equipped to define causes of death and there are gloomy signs that the real death toll is much greater.
According to the United Nations, the country's health system has all but failed since war broke out between the government and Houthi revolutionaries in 2014, and more than two thirds of the population of about 24 million need support to live.
In the southwestern city of Taez, market sellers stack bags of herbs and spices in front of their shops, from garlic, ginger, and turmeric to costus root and fennel flower, at costs much more reasonable than modern medicine.
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