(Zaman Al Wasl)- Pro-regime media outlets said Friday at least 30 people were released from a quarantine center in Homs city after testing negative for the novel Coronavirus.
About 70 more people are still in the quarantine center but they are not infected, according to Al-Khabar TV.
Syria's confirmed cases are just 19 with two deaths, but medics and witnesses say there are many more.
The Syrian regime has imposed a lockdown and draconian measures including a nationwide night curfew to stem the pandemic that killed more 102,000 worldwide.
The moves to shut businesses, schools, universities, mosques and most regime offices, as well as stop public transport, have spread fear among war-weary residents.
The World Health Organisation has warned that the country has a limited capacity to deal with a rapid spread of the virus.
Last week, a Syrian citizen who tested positive for COVID-19 after returning from Lebanon has been put under quarantine in Hama military hospital.
In the opposition-held areas, the WHO has so far shipped 900 tests to Idlib and another 5,000 are expected to arrive next week. Personal protective equipment has also been distributed to 21 health care facilities but the Idlib Health Directorate is urging the UN agency to ramp up aid and provide "urgently-needed ventilators, protective gear for medical staff and hand sanitizer to overcrowded camps."
According to the WHO, only 50% of public hospitals and 47% of public primary health care centers were fully functional in Syria at the end of 2019.
Zaman Al Wasl
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