Yemen's Prime Minister on Tuesday told the donors participating in a Saudi and UN-organized virtual pledging conference in Riyadh that his country is facing the "world's strongest hardships due to the Houthi militia's coup, war and looting of state-owned resources in the territories they control."

A virtual pledging conference for Yemen has opened in the Saudi capital Riyadh as organized by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in partnership with the United Nations.

Vice President of the Republic (Lt Gen) Ali Mohsen Saleh described the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's call for holding Yemen's donor conference as a significant humanitarian gesture toward Yemen.

KSrelief Center reported that "it had carried out 474 projects distributed to 21 sector in Yemen with total cost estimated at over $ 3 billion and 5 million since it was established in May 2015".

The national Supreme Committee on Coronavirus confirmed on Sunday 11 new infections with the novel contagion in Taiz, which raises the confirmed toll to 54 in the southwestern Yemen city.

The Yemeni Government has called on the United Nations to rump up pressure upon Houthi rebels to act jointly against coronavirus pandemic.

Prime Minister Dr. Ma'een Abdulmalik and the UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Marck Lowcock discussed on Friday through a telephone call the ongoing preparations for Yemen donors conference 2020 scheduled for next Tuesday.

Ministry of Public Health and Population received 16 tons of medicines and protection and safety requirements to control coronavirus pandemic.

Two of the activists held hostages by the Houthis in Sana'a have contracted the novel coronavirus in their detention place, local sources in the theocratic militia-held city anonymously told the NGO Yemeni Network for Rights and Freedom.

Deputy Health Minister Ali al-Walidi and the director of the humanitarian medical organization MSF discussed here today operating an isolation facility in the Republican Hospital in Aden.

Minister of Public Health and Population Dr. Nasser Ba-aum called on Houthi rebel militia to reveal information about the number coronavirus infection and died cases.

The Council of Ministers convened a session Monday via videoconference presided over by Prime Minister Dr. Ma'een Abdulmaik.

Yemen government officials said the Houthi cover-up on figures of coronavirus infections in the rebel militia-controlled areas has everyone in Yemen on the verge of catastrophe.

A Yemeni military commander leading one of the divisions of the Yemeni military, the First Military Region, said his division "won't allow for militias or "paramilitary units outside the regular military to be formed" in Wadi and Sahra Hadhramout in eastern Yemen.

Yemen's Health Minister warned of the worsening coronavirus crisis in Yemen saying "the situations are dangerous and require the cooperation of all."

President of Republic Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, Commander-in-Chief, directed the Governor of Hadramout, Commander of the Second Military Region, Maj, General Faraj al-Bahssoni to get military measures tightened and keep high security alert.

Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor launched on Tuesday a National Plan of Yemeni Woman "Security and Peace". The plan is intended to carry out the International Security Council resolution no 1325 " Woman, Security and Peace".

Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Dr. Najib al-Aweg held discussions Monday with the representative of the WHO in Yemen Eltaf Mossani.

The Yemeni Government and Islamic Bank Group agreed Thursday on re-allocating $32 million were allotted to previous projects in order to be devoted immediately through fast track to contain coronavirus pandemic.

The World Bank announced the resumption of its programs in the education sector in Yemen, with an estimated cost of $ 150 million.