Although the government says it has yet to document any infections, Syria is seen at high risk from the virus. "We have vulnerable populations in camps, refugees, slum areas at the outskirts of large urban centres," the World Health Organization's Syria representative, Nima Saeed Abid, told Reuters. Coronavirus infections have also yet to be recorded in the large parts of Syria outside government control - the east, northeast and northwest. Medics in the northwest fear the virus would spread very quickly in crowded camps for the displaced. All the countries bordering Syria have coronavirus outbreaks.

Source: Dhaka Tribune March 20, 2020 17:26 UTC