The pro-government ministry announced officially in a statement on Monday "the recovery of the only case of COVID-19 registered previously in the port city of Ash Shihr in the country's eastern province of Hadramout."

The ministry's statement confirmed that "the results of all the medical and clinical examinations carried out on the patient and his relatives were negative."

On April 10, Yemen's supreme national emergency committee declared that a 60-year-old Yemeni man, who worked in Ash Shihr, was diagnosed with the coronavirus.

Plagued by cholera, malnutrition, and diphtheria, Yemen lacks the ability to cope with deadly epidemics as its five years of civil war has almost destroyed its healthcare system.

According to UN estimates, nearly 80 percent of the population in Yemen require humanitarian assistance and protection.

Ten million people are a step away from famine and 7 million people are malnourished.