Egypt is taking new health measures against those coming from Yemen

English - Tuesday 28 February 2023 الساعة 04:05 pm
Aden, NewsYemen, exclusive:

 Yemen Airways announced new health measures taken by the Republic of Egypt against travelers coming to it from Yemen following the return of the polio epidemic in the areas of the Houthi militia, Iran's arm in Yemen, after it prevented giving vaccines to children.

 Yemen Airways said, in a circular issued on Monday, that "as of February 27, 2023, all travelers from Yemen to Egypt or visitors who have spent four weeks or more in Yemen must obtain a dose of the bivalent oral polio vaccine (BopV) or get inactivated Solk polio vaccine (LPV) before arriving in Egypt.”

Local sources told (NewsYemen) that the Egyptian authorities obligated Yemen Airways to issue instructions to passengers and their accompanying children coming from Yemen to the Republic of Egypt, to present obtaining vaccination certificates against "polio", because of his return to the areas of the Houthi militia after it was prevented from giving vaccines to children.  

Polio has re-spread in areas controlled by the Houthi militia, more than 10 years after declaring Yemen free of this disease, due to Iran's refusal to allow the implementation of national campaigns against this disease, claiming that vaccines are not safe or effective.

Medical reports revealed the death and infection of about 230 children with polio during the past months, as the virus re-emerged in the country again in a frightening way, in light of the war waged by the Houthi militia on vaccines.

On February 8, two Houthi organizations in Sana'a, supported by the United Nations, held a symposium that emphasized that vaccines and immunization doses are not safe, describing them as "dirt, poison, a Jewish conspiracy and a satanic idea aimed at killing millions of people."

At the same symposium, Taha Al-Mutawakel, Minister of Health in the (unrecognized) Houthi government, said that his ministry considers "the vaccine is not absolutely obligatory," and that "whoever insists on it and demands it, he will be given the vaccine, provided that he bears responsibility."!

Whereas, Abdul-Malik al-Houthi, the leader of the militia, claimed in his last speech that "the Americans and those with them spread diseases and pandemics with various viruses, and work to sell unsafe medicines and vaccines that cause health symptoms and spread among societies."

In this regard, the Ministry of Health in the legitimate government warned of the danger of such myths on the future of Yemeni children in militia-controlled areas, leaving their fate at the mercy of the myths of charlatans and charlatans claiming medicine at a time when the whole world agreed on medicine based on scientific evidence.

The ministry also warned, in a statement on February 9, that promoting dark ideas that do not take into account the safety of Yemenis and the lives and future of their children is a disaster that everyone must confront.

The statement called for exposing what the custodians of ignorance and myth are doing, especially with the return of diseases and epidemics that had ended after the obscurantists provided them with a fertile environment to return to destroy the health of Yemeni people, including polio.

He explained that thanks to vaccines, many diseases such as smallpox were eradicated, and Yemen was declared polio-free in 2009 until it returned in 2019 in Saada governorate, as a result of the militias' behavior that prevented and marginalized vaccines.

The Yemeni Ministry of Health renewed its demand for the regional and international community to move to prevent this negative culture that contradicts science, health and truth alike, to condemn what is happening, and to carry out its duty through steps to ensure that this disastrous behavior does not spread.