Houthi eliminates the measures to prevent Corona, at the height of the outbreak of the pandemic for military reasons
English - Saturday 20 June 2020 الساعة 03:11 pm
Sanaa, Newsyemen, private:
The Houthi militia, through what is called the Supreme Committee for the Control of Epidemics, which it formed recently, issued a decision to restore public life to normal, at the height of the outbreak of the Coronavirus in its areas of control, and concealed about the victims since last April.
The decision issued on Thursday obligated the capital’s secretary and governors of governorates under the control of the militia to submit proposals within three days to gradually restore life, without clarifying any reasons under which the decision was taken, which states usually take in the event of a pandemic outbreak, while the Houthi regions witness the height of the outbreak and the rise of infected cases and deaths on daily basis.
Sources in the Ministry of Public Health and Population in Sanaa told (Newsyemen) that the aim of this decision is to cover the spread of the deadly virus among the Houthi militia, and to try to attract fighters to feed its fronts after an official document from the Military Medical Services Department leaked confirming that several fighters were infected with the virus after taking samples from the militia militants on the Marib, Al-Bayda and Taiz fronts.
Those sources revealed that the Houthi militia forced the epidemic control committee to issue this decision in order to stop the state of panic and rift experienced by its fronts due to the escape of fighters from those fronts and their return to their homes and their refusal to continue fighting after the outbreak of Corona among their colleagues, as well as difficulties faced by the Committee in continuing the mobilization operations compulsory to push young tribesmen to fill the void.
It added that, according to this decision, the only measure previously taken by the Higher Committee for Epidemics of reducing staff in ministries, government agencies, and the private sector will be terminated to 20%.
While the rest of the measures that were supposed to be taken by the committee, including house quarantine, market closures, and social distancing, the militia rejected it from the start and insisted on adopting "herd immunity", which threatens to infect about 60 to 70% of Yemen's population of about 30 million people.
In addition to its practice of concealing infected cases and fatalities, similar to the approach taken by Iran at the beginning of the Corona outbreak in its regions.
Medical sources have warned of the serious repercussions of the priesthood militia's continuing to deal with indifference and recklessness towards this pandemic, which is killing the population in its areas of control, amid a complete blackout from the catastrophic and dangerous epidemiological situation.
The Houthi militia had announced, earlier, its intention to end the 2019-2020 academic year and start preparing for the elementary and secondary public exams in mid-August, which would put around one million students in the danger of infection.
Dr. Wahaj Al-Maqtari - a consultant for critical medicine and intensive care - who leads Corona control doctors in the militia-controlled areas, warned against the danger of calling school students in Sanaa and the neighboring provinces to review lessons or take exams at the top of the epidemic outbreak of the new corona virus covid19 in the country, considering that creating a suitable ground "for a pandemic explosion in society.
And he held the Ministry of Education in Sanaa, which is run by Yahya al-Houthi (brother of the militia leader), responsible for everything that would result from calling students to schools, and he also held responsibility for what may result from the expansion of the epidemic outbreak further through school classes "that he confirmed as providing greater and appropriate environment for the outbreak of the Coronavirus, which is more dangerous than the market, as it is closed and students sit in it for long periods, not just passers-by.
