Kurds: first virus case in northeast Syria



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Workers disinfect the streets of the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria to prevent the spread of the infection. Image from March 24.

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Workers disinfect the streets of the city of Qamishli in northeast Syria to prevent the spread of the infection. Image from March 24.

The Kurdish region of northeast Syria reports that the World Health Organization, WHO, confirmed a first case of the coronavirus. According to the brief statement, it will be a 53-year-old man who died in a hospital in the city of Qamishli on April 2. Samples analyzed in Damascus should have confirmed that the man was infected with covid-19 disease.

A representative of the hospital in Qamishli, which is under the control of the Syrian government, denies that the hospital has had covid-19 cases. The WHO office in Damascus has not commented on the Kurdish administration’s information.

Aid organizations have expressed deep concern that the virus pandemic reaches northeast Syria, where medical care has been cut short by the civil war and where thousands of people are trapped in camps for supporters of the Islamic State.

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