Ministry of Interior reveals its measures to prevent covid-19 spread
Ministry of Interior in the National Salvation Government has revealed its measures taken and implemented to prevent the leakage of the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) from neighboring countries or provinces under the occupation of Saudi-led coalition forces, to the provinces of the authority of the Supreme Political Council and the salvation government.
Interior Ministry spokesman Brigadier General Abdul Khaleq al-Ajri confirmed that the Ministry ” has moved from the first day of the declaration of Corona as a global epidemic and carried out a wide deployment of security personnel in all free provinces to secure the ports and prevent the smuggling of arrivals”.
Brigadier general Abdul Khaleq al-Ajri explained that the ministry “added and established new security points in some provinces to prevent infiltration of people coming from outside”.
He confirmed that “there is no road left to smuggle arrivals in the capital and four provinces”.
Al-Ajri said the ministry, along with awareness campaigns, “engaged the community police to cooperate with security officers and report any information about arrivals from Saudi Arabia and the incoming areas.”
“In the past few days, a large security campaign ensured and secured the transfer of arrivals from border crossings, such as Al-Raqqah in Monabbih border district of Saada, to quarantine centres,” he said. “Thousands of arrivals have been quarantined.”
But the most important thing among what interior ministry spokesman Brig. Gen. Abdul Khaleq al-Ajri said in a statement that security forces have arrested a large number of high-ranking African smugglers and others in our country”.
“The number of quarantine centres in Saada province has reached more than 28 health centres,” Brigadier General Al-Ajri said at the end of his statement.
“All the quarantine centers are still empty in nine of the districts of Saada province,” he said.
The measures taken to prevent the leakage of the new Corona virus (Covid-19) comes after first confirmed case of coronavirus reported in Hadhramaut, eastern Yemen.