Through Border Crossings, COVID-19 Infiltrates North Syria
On July 19, Idlib Health Directorate recorded the first COVID-19 positive case in the province, northwest Syria. As it broke the news, an unprecedented fear gripped about four million civilians in Idlib and the northern and western suburbs of Aleppo. This enclave, on the Turkish border strip, incubates some two million displaced people in camps, while hundreds of thousands of civilians continue to be jammed in the cities and towns north of Syria.