More 1,100 Dengue Cases Have Been Reported in Taiz Province Since Early 2019

YemenExtra

M.A.

More than 1,100 dengue cases and one death have been recorded since the beginning of 2019, according to health offices in Taiz province. The Anatolian agency reported that Deputy Director of the Department of Health Education and Information in the Office of the Ministry of Health, the health office in Taiz has recorded 1103 cases of dengue fever and one death since the beginning of 2019. He added that 802 cases have been confirmed by rapid examination.

Compared to last year’s statistics, there is a significant decrease in the number of cases, where 3170 cases were monitored during the same period of 2018, including 17 deaths, according to the source.

The health sector in Yemen suffers from a severe deterioration due to the aggression on Yemen, which led to the spread of epidemics and diseases and the closure of a large number of health facilities.

Since March 2015, countries of the coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the UAE have launched a brutal war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of innocent lives.

Fighting in Yemen on 30 fronts has killed 70,000 people since the beginning of 2016, according to Marc Luckock, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, during a briefing to the Security Council on June 17, 2019.