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Covid-19: Women are under-recorded in infected total

There's a warning that coronavirus cases among women are being significantly under-reported in a number of fragile states.

The charity International Rescue Committee fears that women in Somalia, Yemen and Afghanistan are being left out of testing programmes. They say that numbers do not add up.

成人快手 Newsday heard from Kellie Ryan who is the spokesperson for the International Rescue Committee based in Nairobi, Kenya.

(Pic: A female worker at the Covid-19 Call Centre in Somalia; Credit: Reuters)

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