SANAA, March 28 (Saba) - The Higher Ministerial Committee for Epidemic Control, in its meeting Saturday chaired by Prime Minister Dr. Abdulaziz bin Habtoor, approved additional precautionary measures related to confronting Coronavirus.
The additional measures included renewing the temporary suspension of flights arriving to Sanaa International Airport until the end of April, determining the alternatives related to the decision of the Ministerial Committee on the closure of Qat markets and transferring them to appropriate places, and mandating ministries and relevant authorities to study the possibility of starting a partial curfew in the capital and province as an important precautionary measure necessary to prevent Corona virus.
The new measures also included mainstreaming precautionary health standards and requirements for receiving cargo-ships entering Yemeni ports, and not stopping the trucks loaded with food, medicine and any consumer goods at the overland ports and when necessary, the driver is changed in the ports and the other is subject to quarantine.
In its meeting, the committee discussed the level of implementing the previous precautionary decisions approved by the committee at the level of the central and local authorities related to confronting the Corona virus.
The meeting reviewed the reports of the relevant ministries and the Capital's local authority on the precautionary measures implemented in practice in the framework of facing this pandemic
The meeting assured citizens that the health reports confirm that no epidemic has been recorded so far, and that all suspected cases that have undergone a medical examination are free of this virus.
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