![A member of the Syrian Civil Defence known as the "White Helmets" disinfects a hospital room, as part of preventive measures taken against infections by the novel coronavirus, in the Syrian town of Dana, east of the Turkish-Syrian border in the northwestern Idlib province, on March 22, 2020. Unlike Syria, its five neighbours, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey, have all reported cases of coronavirus.
The rebel-held and densely-populated province of Idlib in northwest Syria, besieged by government forces and facing severe shortages of medical supplies and facilities, would suffer the most from an outbreak.
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A member of the Syrian Civil Defence a makeshift hospital room in Dana, Syria, on March 22, 2020. AFP
A member of the Syrian Civil Defence a makeshift hospital room in Dana, Syria, on March 22, 2020. AFP
Coronavirus is becoming Syria's other war and the country lacks the medical resources to fight it
With only half of the hospitals and primary healthcare facilities they need, Syrians are doomed to further suffering in the face of the pandemic