Yemen’s Government Warns of  Second Wave of Coronavirus

Today, Wednesday, Yemen’s government announced that hospitals must prepare for a possible second wave of the Coronavirus (COVID-19).

Sources familiar with the government stressed that appropriate measures must be taken to prevent the spread of the virus.

"Reuters" agency quoted Yemeni health authorities' statements that monitor the spread of the virus in the country, noting that confirmed cases increased in the past ten days after declining since September to only two cases per day.

The Supreme National Emergency Committee recorded 11 cases in each of the past Tuesday and Monday, in government-controlled areas.

The Yemeni government recorded 2,187 cases of the Coronavirus, of which 620 died.

The Houthi authorities, who control most of the large centers, have not provided figures since last May.

On Tuesday, the Yemeni Health Ministry directed all its facilities in the governorates under the control of the legitimate government to raise readiness to confront the second wave of the outbreak of the new Coronavirus "Covid-19", after the increase in the number of recorded infections.

The Minister of Health, Qassem Beheh, stressed "the reporting of confirmed cases, the epidemiological investigation, the rapid response to the survey of contact cases, the continuous communication with the operations of the Ministry of Health about the developments of the epidemiological situation of Covid-19, and the evaluation of the situation of isolation centers and central laboratories."

And last Sunday, the Yemeni Minister of Health announced that his country expects to obtain 12 million doses of a vaccine against the  Coronavirus, during the current year, sufficient for about 6 million people.

He said that "the first batches of Corona vaccine will arrive in Yemen at the beginning of the second quarter of this year, including about two million and 316 thousand doses (through the Kovacs initiative), sufficient to vaccinate more than one million Yemenis."

He added that a project has been submitted through the World Health Organization (WHO) to the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center to    finance the cost of a vaccine that covers an additional 50% of the population, in order to reach coverage of at least 70% of the population in Yemen."