At least 16 Syrian people were tested positive for the novel coronavirus upon their return from Sudan, UAE, Russia and Kuwait, the regime health ministry said Sunday.
It brings the total recorded infections in Syria to 86 and four deaths. The war-torn nation has limited testing capabilities and a heavily damaged health system.
Two regions in the country’s north with a population of nearly 8 million people are outside of regime control, so testing there has also been even more limited.
Health authorities have reported no infections in the rebel-held northwest.
In the northeast, the Kurdish-led government began carrying out its own testing and has so far recorded three infections and one death.
(Zaman Al Wasl, AP)
Zaman Al Wasl
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