Hamza Abdulrahman Jelwal, 35, a supervising nurse at a quarantine centre in the coastal city of Misrata, has not seen his family since Libya's lockdown began in March. He has also not been paid.
He tested positive for the coronavirus in August and was quarantined in the same facility. As soon as he got better, he got up and went back to work.His experience underscores the high stakes and growing challenges for Libyan medics as the number of confirmed cases spikes. Figures have climbed rapidly from a few hundred last month to almost 20,000 now.
The United Nations' acting Libya envoy, Stephanie Williams, has told the Security Council that the real number of cases in Libya is almost certainly far higher and that the health system is"unable to respond". Libya has been divided since 2014 between the internationally recognised Government of National Accord in Tripoli and the west, and areas of the east and south held by Khalifa Haftar's Libyan National Army .
The two rival administrations operate parallel governments that have issued differing public health orders aimed at controlling the spread of the virus, but both closed their foreign borders early in the crisis.
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