Emergency meeting chaired by PM endorses measures to control Coronavirus

RIYADH- SABA
An emergency session presided over by Prime Minister Dr. Ma’een Abdulmalik convened on Saturday devoted to discuss precautionary and preventive measures to control Coronavirus.

The meeting has decided to suspend all air flights from and to all Yemeni airports for two weeks starting next Tuesday at: 12:00 pm.

It is also decided that all land entrances should be closed except for commercial, relief and humanitarian shipping, the closure shall be started next Tuesday March 17,2020.

An emergency budget totalling one billion Yemeni Rial (YR) is approved to support health sector capacities.
It is also decided that schooling must be suspended for a week firstly.