A Yemeni Public Health official said Houthi militants blocked the delivery of a shipment of coronavirus vaccines to areas under their control, state agency Saba News reported.
The vaccines were meant to be distrusted to people in Houthi-controlled areas in northern Yemen, the report added.
.@BBCNawal and her team found cellphone footage of Houthi Ministry of Health teams picking up bodies of COVID-19 casualties, as well as hundreds of Facebook posts memorializing loved ones lost to the virus in northern Yemen. https://t.co/uCiJOXruwv #frontlinepbs
— FRONTLINE (@frontlinepbs) February 10, 2021
The deputy health minister Ali Al-Walidi told a WHO-sponsored virtual meeting of Mediterranean health ministers about the militia’s action.
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