Syria reported 20 new cases of the novel coronavirus Monday, the largest single-day increase to date, the health ministry said.
The war-torn country has recorded 106 infections and four deaths so far, and new cases have increased in recent days.
It brings the total recorded infections in Syria to 106 and four deaths. The war-torn nation has limited testing capabilities and a heavily damaged health system.
Syria has kept an overnight curfew in place but has begun to open some of its economy after a lockdown. Doctors and relief groups worry that medical infrastructure ravaged by nine years of conflict would make a more serious outbreak deadly and difficult to fend off.
Health Minister Nizar Yazigi said last week that "coercive and unfair" Western sanctions were hitting medical services needed to cope with coronavirus and he called for their removal.
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, Agencies
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