Nine years after the Syrian Civil War began, the country’s citizens now face another threat: Covid-19. An estimated 100,000 people in northwest Syria will die from the disease if health workers cannot access personal protective equipment, medicines, and other supplies needed to combat the spread of the virus, according to the Syria Campaign, a human-rights group that raises international awareness and funds to promote peace and democracy in the country.
“Everything that we hear about around social distancing is inapplicable in the Syrian situation,” says Laila Kiki, executive director of the organization. In Idlib, Syria, she says, most of its 3.5 million people have been displaced from their homes and are living in camps, where a single tent typically shelters by more than 10 people.
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