A silent outbreak of the epidemic ... A cemetery in Sanaa receives 10 deaths in Corona
English - Thursday 08 April 2021 الساعة 09:56 am
Sanaa, NewsYemen, Exclusive:
The new Corona virus, covid-19, is killing Yemenis in Sanaa and its neighboring governorates fiercely, amid a media blackout and official disregard for the authorities of the Houthi coup militia - the Iranian arm in Yemen.
According to local sources and residents in Sanaa, one cemetery south of Sanaa, on Tuesday, April 6, received more than 10 funerals for deaths showing symptoms of the Corona virus before death.
Ali Al-Hamdani, a retired employee from Sanaa, says that 4 deaths were recorded in their residential neighborhood in Al-Wahda District during the past two days, on suspicion of the Coronavirus.
In his speech to (NewsYemen), Al-Hamdani believes that the suspension of the salaries of state employees in its public and mixed sectors has had a catastrophic effect on the deterioration of living life as a whole, including the inability of most families to buy sterilizers and the necessary preventive means from the epidemic.
The prices of masks (face masks) rise to 100 Yemeni riyals for one masks of the regular types, which doctors advise to use for one time only, while the prices of sterilizers ranged from 500 riyals to about 3 thousand riyals, depending on the size and quality of the product.
Umm Walid - a Yemeni housewife and employee - complains that she needs 5 masks per day for family members who are supposed to leave the house every day for necessity, which means that she spent an amount of 5,000 riyals worth of masks within 10 days only.
In her speech to (NewsYemen), Umm Walid considers the provision of such an amount to spend on face masks to prevent corona virus an additional burden on the shoulders of the family in light of the disruption of salaries, and ahead of the month of Ramadan, "the calamity is that Ramadan is at the gates and Corona is at the gates", referring to the requirements of The family is a staple food and Ramadan consumer goods.
Residents transmit news of deaths to relatives, friends and neighbors in most neighborhoods of the capital, Sana'a and its suburbs, and prayers are held for the dead in most mosques in the capital, Sana'a, and loudspeakers in most mosques broadcast verses from the wise remembrance of the souls of deaths in times of the five daily prayers.
And to the north of Sanaa, the airport and al-Jarf area, Abdullah al-Harithi told NewsYemen that during the past few days, he attended the ceremony of offering condolences for 4 deaths to close to his family, and friends quoted him as saying that a doctor died in a medical hospital due to symptoms of the Coronavirus.
The Houthi militia deals with the Corona virus with disregard and beliefs that tend to myth and contradict the results of scientific research and the instructions of the World Health Organization, and conceal the numbers of victims and the extent of the spread of the epidemic, and it was satisfied with obliging hospitals and official and private medical centers to prevent citizens and employees from entering these facilities without wearing the precautionary convictions of the Corona virus. .
Meanwhile, UN organizations issued warnings about Yemen's weak capabilities in the face of the second wave of the Coronavirus, and the urgent need to increase health support, in order to activate efforts to respond to Covid-19 disease amid a sharp increase in the number of infected people since last March.
Globally, the World Health Organization monitored a significant increase in the number of new deaths due to the Corona virus around the world during the last week, with a rate of 11% compared to last week, indicating that more than 4 million new infections were recorded, and 71 thousand new deaths.
