Complete lockdown measures limited to alerting residents in Syria’s Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – “The measures taken to implement the complete lockdown to prevent the outbreak of coronavirus will be limited to alerting residents to the necessity of abiding by the complete lockdown,” co-chair of the Internal Committee in the Raqqa Civil Council and member of the Crisis Management Team Mustafa Mahmoud said on Wednesday.
The Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (AANES) extended the complete lockdown in all its regions to ten days, which started on Tuesday till Thursday, April 22.
”The Internal Committee closed the entrances of the city of Raqqa to limit the entry and exit of residents from the city, with the exception of humanitarian cases and cases allowed to roam based on the complete lockdown decision,” Mahmoud added.
”The Internal Security Forces (Asayish) are conducting patrols all day in the city,” he pointed out.
On Tuesday, Raqqa witnessed a relative commitment of the residents to the complete lockdown, which has entered its second week in the city.
The head of the Healthcare Department in Raqqa Civil Council, Ali Abdel Aziz, said that the residents’ lack of commitment to the complete lockdown warns of a tragic situation in the region.
In an earlier statement to North Press, co-chair of the Health Committee in Raqqa Civil Council Kassar al-Ali said that the commitment of the complete lockdown and social distancing are the only solutions to limit the outbreak of coronavirus between residents.
On Tuesday, the AANES’s Health Board recorded four deaths and 319 new coronavirus infections, raising the total toll in northeast Syria to 12,756, including 432 deaths and 1,382 recoveries.
AANES appealed to the WHO, during a press conference held by the Health Board on Monday, to immediately intervene to prevent a ”humanitarian catastrophe” in the region due to coronavirus.