Pandemic Amid an Economic Crisis: Challenges for Syria
... medicines, such as azithromycin , which is included in the treatment protocol for COVID-19. Yet the optimistic indicators underplay existing problems, which are made apparent by more statistics: Syria surpasses all neighbouring countries in terms of COVID-19 mortality (almost 5%), while the percentage of recovered patients (slightly more than 31%) is significantly lower than that of its neighbours, excluding Jordan. Igor Matveev: The Caesar Act: A New Challenge for Syria? As the territorial integrity of Syria has been disrupted, it is difficult to organise a nationwide campaign to combat the pandemic. The extremely modest numbers of cases in AANES-controlled areas and in Idlib (which ...