US, Occupiers to Blame for Spread of COVID-19 in Yemen: Houthi
Chairman of Yemen’s Supreme Revolutionary Committee, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi said the invading countries are intentionally refusing to take measures to prevent the spread of the virus in the regions they have occupied.
It is the occupiers that are in control of sea and ways and can prevent the coronavirus from entering Yemen but are doing nothing to stop it, he said in a tweet, al-Mayadeen TV reported.
He noted that while the US, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and their allies have taken strict measures in their own country against the infectious disease, they allowed four flights with 1,000 passengers to land in Yemen in a short period of time.
This is while they allowed only one landing a week in Yemen since the start of aggression on the country, he noted.
Classified a pandemic by the World Health Organization, the new virus, a respiratory disease known as COVID-19, emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei Province late last year.
It has killed more than 7,000 people globally, and infected nearly 180,000 others, according to the WHO.
Saudi Arabia and the UAE are key members of a coalition that has been waging a deadly war on Yemen since March 2015 in support of the former Yemeni president, Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, and against the Houthi Ansarullah movement.
The Saudi-led military campaign has killed and injured over 600,000 civilians, according to the Yemeni Ministry of Human Rights.
Several Western countries, the US and the UK in particular, are accused of being complicit in the aggression as they supply the Riyadh regime with advanced weapons and military equipment.
