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March 27, 2020

Health Official Fears 100,000 Deaths If Coronavirus Hits Camps for Displaced Syrians
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In northern Syria, civil defense workers known as the "white helmets"
have pivoted from responding to government bomb attacks to sanitizing
camps for internally displaced people. The head of the
opposition-controlled Idlib Health Directorate warns more than 100,000
people could die if the coronavirus sweeps through Syria's crowded
camps, which lack even basic medical infrastructure. This Ali Hallak,
who fled Aleppo for a camp near the Turkish border.

Ali Hallak: "As you have seen the situation in the camps, we are afraid
of corona. These tents are not able to protect us from the virus and we
are not able to sanitize the tents."



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