Yemen allocates $ 5 million to fight H1N1 spread

Yemen has put a plan to combat a possible spread of swine flu known as H1N1, a step which comes after the World Heath Organization raised the pandemic alert level to phase 6.

The plan allocates about $ 5.04 million in finance to provide necessary supplies to fight the pandemic. The supplies will include 100 anti-H1N1masks, vaccine for a million people, three H1N1 non-contact infrared thermometers that placed in the provinces of Sana'a, Aden and Mukalla. There will be also other materials to be provided at the central test labs in Aden and Mukalla. 

Only six Yemeni people have been tested positive for the H1N1 pandemic, mostly students who came from abroad.

The measures that Yemen is going to take to encounter H1N1 would be carried out in collaboration with health offices across the republic, with special rooms provided to keep infected cases to avoid further spread.

Though a few of the already infected people around the world have died, the pandemic spreads very quickly in a short time.

Since it first began in Mexico on April 24 and then in the United States, the H1N1 flu pandemic has spread in more than 104 countries worldwide.

Meanwhile, the Yemeni authorities have warned the disease may gain momentum in winter.

Up to 35.000 people have been confirmed infected with the virus globally, of whom almost 200 people died.

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