UN warns 2.3 million people need aid in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amid fears of ‘massive’ coronavirus spread

Fighting is still going on in several parts of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region and almost 2.3 million people — nearly half of the population — need aid, according to a UN report.

Many of the hospitals in Tigray have been struck by artillery during the two months of fighting, according to the first humanitarian assessment of the devastation.

Aid and desperately needed supplies have begun arriving in the region, but the UN report warns of a looming…