High toll of coronavirus infections in Northwest Syria

IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, the Syrian Interim Government of the opposition Syrian National Coalition announced the recording of 30 new cases of coronavirus in northwest Syria.

On its official account on the Internet, the Interim Government said that it recorded 30 cases of the virus, and ten recoveries.

It indicated that it had conducted tests for 783 suspected cases in Idlib and Aleppo regions.

With the newly announced figures, the total number of infections in the opposition-controlled areas has risen to 21,570, including 638 deaths and 19,594 recoveries.

On Monday, the northwest areas recorded 31 new coronavirus inflected cases and nine recoveries.

The numbers of coronavirus cases in Idlib and Aleppo have increased significantly since the end of March, according to the statistics announced by the Interim Government.

Reporting by Hala al-Sheikh Ahmed