Yemen national football team coach dies after contracting Covid-19
Yemen national football team coach dies after contracting Covid-19
Sami al-Naash died on Monday in a hospital in the southern port city of Aden.
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Al-Naash died on Monday in a hospital in the southern port city of Aden [Getty]
Yemen's national team coach Sami al-Naash has died from Covid-19, the country's football association said in a statement on Sunday.
Al-Naash died on Monday in a hospital in the southern port city of Aden, the Yemen Football Association said.
He was infected while at a camp for the national team in the southern province of Shabwa last month, the statement added.
Yemen's national team was preparing for three games in the coming weeks in hopes of qualifying for the Asian Cup and the 2022 World Cup finals in Qatar.
Yemen is in Group D along with Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, Singapore and the Palestinian territories.
Yemen received a first shipment of Covid-19 vaccines last month, after its coronavirus committee warned of a public health "emergency".
The country, which has been gripped by civil war since 2014, has been experiencing a surge in coronavirus cases that have overwhelmed its depleted medical facilities.
The conflict in Yemen started when Iranian-backed Houthi rebels took control of the capital Sanaa and much of the northern part of the country.
That forced President Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi's government to flee to the south, then to Saudi Arabia.
A US-backed, Saudi-led coalition intervened against the Houthis in 2015 in an attempt to restore Hadi's rule.
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