Coalition deepens humanitarian crisis by transporting people infected with Corona to Yemen

 News about halting a flight of the Yemeni Airlines, which was scheduled to transfer a number of Yemenis stranded at Cairo airport on Sunday, June 14, to Sayoun airport, has been met with widespread discontent in the Yemeni provinces in general and the southern provinces in particular.

This came after medical tests had proved that a number of those stranded people were infected with Corona virus (COVID-19).

Activists on social networking websites accused Saudi-led coalition and its tools of deepening the humanitarian crisis in Yemen by transferring the infected people to the country, which would increase the spread of the epidemic in the areas they would reach.

Observers believe that Hadi government’s proceeding in its measures to transfer the stranded Yemenis to Yemen, despite its knowledge that a number of them were infected, proves the role of the coalition and its tools in spreading the epidemic in Yemen during the last period.

According to the observers, what Cairo airport revealed Saturday raises the question about the number of infected people who were transferred to Yemen during the last period and their contribution to spreading the epidemic in the areas to which they return, especially that they were not subject to the health quarantine.

Hadi government’s insistence to return the stranded people without subjecting them to quarantine confirms that there is a systematic plan by the coalition through which it seeks to flood Yemen with the epidemic in the context of its total war, the observers put forth.

It is noteworthy that Sayoun airport of Hadramout province, eastern Yemen, had received three flights from Cairo carrying Yemenis over the past three days, and the arrivals were transported to their provinces by buses without being subjected to quarantine procedures.

Earlier, the Higher Committee for Epidemics Control in Sanaa had warned against the measures taken by the Hadi government to transfer the stranded Yemenis and return them to Yemen, without taking precautionary measures in accordance with the World Health Organization’s standards, and called on the arrivals to take their responsibility and adhere to the health and quarantine rules in the land ports to ensure their safety and the safety of their loved ones.

The Committee held the coalition and its agents at home fully responsible for the transfer and spread of the Corona epidemic in Yemen.

YPA