A medical source reveals the details of two cases of coronavirus in Hasakah

Hasakah – North-Press Agency

Agid Mishmish

The Medical Affairs' Officer of the Health Directorate of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria in Hasakah, Dr. Ramanda Issa, revealed the details of the two infections with coronavirus in the city of Hasakah.

Dr. Ramanda Issa said in a statement to North-Press that the family in which two cases of infection with coronavirus were deducted, the WHO took samples from them for testing, and that the result of the wife's test was "positive" yesterday, Wednesday.

"Once we received the wife's positive result, we sent our emergency team and took samples from her family for testing, so our results showed that the 61-year-old husband was also infected with the virus," she added.

Dr. Issa pointed out that the wife was transferred to the National Hospital in Qamishli (under the control of the Syrian government), due to the deterioration of her health condition, and for being suspected of carrying the virus, and there, a sample of blood was taken from her, where the results showed that the wife was infected with COVID-19.

"The husband's condition is stable, the vital signs were normal, and he did not show any symptoms, so we put him in quarantine in his house," said the medical affairs official in the Health Directorate.

After confirming the two infections, the Health Committee of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria said, yesterday, that the exit and entry movement to and from the city of Hasakah will be prevented beginning with Thursday, in conjunction with isolating the entire neighborhood of al-Omran in the city.

On Thursday, the Internal Security Forces (Asayish) imposed a quarantine on 14 families in the al-Omran neighborhood, southwest of Hasakah, after confirming the two infected cases in the neighborhood.

The Social Affairs Authority in the Hasakah governorate, in coordination with the Health Authority, provided food aid to the quarantined families.