The coronavirus is surging in Syria and hospitals are overwhelmed — lacking medicine, tests and equipment. Authorities are using an intimidation campaign to suppress information about the outbreak, a medical worker says.
A medic checks the temperature of a Syrian worshipper before entering the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus to attend Friday prayer on May 15. To try to slow the coronavirus outbreak, the Syrian government has banned mass prayers and asked Syrians to stay home over the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha this weekend.A medic checks the temperature of a Syrian worshipper before entering the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus to attend Friday prayer on May 15.
With hospitals overwhelmed, staff are treating patients in dirty rooms, without enough medication and with little equipment to protect themselves, one medical worker in the country told NPR."There are continuous warnings against doctors speaking on this issue," said the medical worker, who asked not to be identified for fear of being arrested.
In the capital, Damascus, there is evidence of the outbreak. NPR spoke with several Syrian citizens, all of whom said they had relatives who have contracted the virus. A noted Lebanese
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