Four coronavirus deaths and 65 new infections recorded in northeast Syria

A member of the medical team checks the temperature of a woman, following the coronavirus outbreak (Photo by REUTERS/Azad Lashkari)
A member of the medical team checks the temperature of a woman, following the coronavirus outbreak (Photo by REUTERS/Azad Lashkari)

QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – The Health Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) announced the recording of 65 new coronavirus infections and four deaths in its areas on Tuesday. 

Jiwan Mustafa, co-chair of the AANES Health Board, stated that the deaths were a man and a woman from the city of Derik, a man from Hasakah and a man from Derbasiya. He added that the new recorded infections were 40 males and 25 women.

In the Jazira region, the recorded infections were 13 in Derik, 13 in Hasakah, 26 in Qamishli, 3 in Girke Lege, 3 in Derbasiya, one in Til Tamr, and one in Amuda.

In the Euphrates region, there was one case in Manbij, and four cases in the northern countryside of Aleppo, where those displaced from Afrin by the Turkish invasion in 2018 reside.

The recovery of 16 cases were also recorded, according to Mustafa.

The Health Board of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) announced the recording of 161 new coronavirus infections and five deaths in its areas on Monday.

According to the new the statistics on new cases of coronavirus in the Autonomous Administration regions, the number of infections has risen to 5,710, of which 147 died and 830 recovered.