Tuesday, March 17, 2020

ANALYSIS: The real coronavirus disaster in Iran and Syria

With all eyes in Israel on the government’s attempts to contain the COVID-19 or Corona virus something extremely worrying is taken place in this regard in both Syria and Iran.
In Syria, dictator Bashar al-Assad is insisting no Corona cases have been discovered but reports by foreign media indicate otherwise.

Al-Jazeera, for example, reported that there are concerns of “a catastrophic outbreak” in Syria after Pakistan reported that some of its citizens returned from Syria infected with the virus.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, furthermore, reported Corona outbreaks in Tartous, Damascus, Homs and Latakia provinces.

“There are cases and deaths in Latakia but the state would not acknowledge," Al Jazeerah reported quoting a Syrian aid worker who lives in Latakia.

A Syrian physician living in Latakia confirmed the local hospitals were treating COVID-19 patients and then made the shocking statement that the hospitals don’t have any test-kits for determining the illness.

This also explains why the World Health Organization doesn’t receive governmental reports on the Syrian Corona outbreak.

Local Syrian media in the eastern Syrian province Deir ez-Zur, furthermore, reported that a number of non-Syrian citizens (Iranians and Iraqis) have been hospitalized after being falling ill due to the COVID-19 virus.

As a result of the spreading virus in eastern Syria the Israeli military reported a decrease in the activities of pro-Iranian militia in eastern Syria. READ MORE