More COVID-19 cases in Syria's overcrowded rebel enclave

11/7/2020 19:10

        According to a monitoring group, at least two doctors in Syria's opposition-held northwest have been infected with the coronavirus, raising the total number of cases in the overcrowded rebel enclave to three.
        
        The Syrian opposition and militant groups control the Idlib area, which is home to more than 3 million people, most of them displaced by the war and living in tent camps and overcrowded facilities. Local health facilities have been targeted in Syrian government attacks that have recently displaced nearly a further million people.
        
        The Early Warning and Alert Response Network, which reports on the virus, said the two doctors had been in touch with patient zero, another doctor who works in a hospital in Idlib. The first case was reported on Thursday and the hospital where the doctor works has since suspended its operations and quarantined patients and support staff to carry out testing.