Syria’s AANES announces 236 new coronavirus cases
HASAKAH, Syria (North Press)-On Friday, the Health Board of the Autonomous Administration announced the recording of five deaths and 236 new cases of oronavirus in the regions of northeast Syria.
The official Autonomous Administration account on Facebook cited Jiwan Mustafa, co-chair of the Health Board, that the deaths are two men from Qamishli, one from Hasakah, one from Tabqa and one from Shahba.
The infections recorded today were as follows: Qamishli (99), Hasakah (57), Derik (11), Derbasiya (4), Tabqa (32) , Raqqa (25), six cases in Shahba in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and two cases in Tel Tamr.
The Health Board also recorded the recovery of three new cases of previously recorded infections.
With the announcement of these new cases, the number of people infected with coronavirus in the regions of northeast Syria, has risen to 11,769 confirmed cases, including 415 deaths and 1,354 cases of recovery.
The new statistic for the number of infections and deaths due to the coronavirus comes on the fourth day of the new lockdown in the northeast regions of Syria.
On Tuesday, the full lockdown began in Qamishli, Hasakah, Raqqa, and the Deir ez-Zor countryside, to continue for a week, coinciding with a partial lockdown in the rest of northeast Syria.
Later, the Health Board announced the imposition of a total lockdown across the Euphrates region, which began on Friday.