SANAA, May 7 (NNN-SABA) – The health authorities in Yemen’s Houthi-held capital, Sanaa, said on Wednesday that, they would build a 3,000-bed field hospital in Sanaa, given the potential spread of COVID-19, the Houthi-run al-Masirah television reported.
Earlier, the Houthi-controlled security authorities imposed partial lock-down on several markets and neighbourhoods in Sanaa, a day after the Houthi-controlled health authorities confirmed the first COVID-19 case in the rebel-held northern provinces, a Somali national found dead in a hotel in Sanaa.
Meanwhile in the south, the internationally recognised Yemeni government confirmed four new cases of COVID-19, bringing the official number of recorded cases in the country to 25, including five deaths.
The World Health Organisation said, Yemen’s fragile health system is facing catastrophic shortages, after five years of civil war, as anti-COVID-19 supplies in the country, are grossly insufficient.
