YEMEN Press Agency

Al-Houthi accuses US of making coronavirus

SANAA, March 17 (YPA) – Member of the Supreme Political Council, Mohammed Ali al-Houthi accused the United States of making the new Coronavirus (Covid-19) and the countries of Saudi-led coalition and the UAE for “deliberately spreading the virus in Yemen”,

“The countries of aggression (the coalition) impose precautionary measures even on their citizens, so why allow four flights to Yemen when all flights stop in most countries of the world?” said Mohammed al-Houthi in a tweet on Sunday night.

He added: “Since the beginning, the countries of aggression have only allowed two weekly flights and sometimes months have passed without even allowing a Yemenia airplane to land or stay overnight.”

He accused the coalition of seeking to spread the Corona epidemic in Yemen, saying: “Today’s four flights to Yemen with a total of 1,000 passengers are dirty  works by the US Saudi-UEA aggression and its allies.”

He added: “The countries of aggression in the occupied territories deliberately do not take any precautionary measures or emergency, quarantine or anything, as if there is no epidemic sweeping the world called Corona.”

Mohammed al-Houthi also accused the United States of participating in the targeting. “We are now directing the Yemeni people towards their true killer and we say” Coronavirus is a US made “, he said.

He continued: “In addition to the aggression and blockade that America refuses to stop and it calls for a halt to humanitarian aid. Whoever kills the people with weapons will not hesitate to kill the Yemeni people at the lowest cost.”

He holds Saudi-led coalition and the UAE responsible for any outbreak of the virus in Yemen.

“The US-Saudi-UAE aggression and its allies bear all consequences,” he said. “We hold the US- aggression and its allies responsible for any situation in Yemen – it controls the sea and land airspace and ports – and the responsibility for ineligibility and action.”

He also accused WHO and other relevant international and international organizations of inaction.

“I call on the brothers inside to cooperate with the High Committee to combat epidemics by donating to build health quarries in the ports as much as they can without waiting for the World Health Organization or others. They have not yet provided anything for this need despite the constant communication with them, ” he addressed the Yemeni people

“We call on citizens abroad to stay where they are to provide treatment” outside Yemen, he said.

“We also call on citizens to abide by all the procedures, recommendations and arrangements issued successively by the High Committee for Combating Epidemics as this falls under the list of closures,” he said referring to an old warning to the martyr Commander Hussein Badr Eddin al-Houthi against the use of the habit of shaking hands with Jews.

Speaking to Yemenis living inside Yemen, Supreme Political Council member Mohammed Ali al-Houthi stressed the need to abide by the instructions of the High Committee for Combating Epidemics and to adopt only official sources of news and recommendations.

He said: “We must be ware of rumours and not accept anything except from an official source. There is no concern with commitment,” he added

The High Committee for The Control of Epidemics in the capital, Sanaa approved the suspension of the study and the reception of UN flights to Sanaa airport, “the closure of land access to all passengers for two weeks from March 16th.

E.M