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| Ravaged by war, Syrian rebel area struggles with virus surge |
| 2021-09-23 |
| [AlAhram] Idlib faces all the challenges that places the world over have during the pandemic: Its intensive care units are largely full Coronavirus cases are surging to the worst levels of the pandemic in a rebel stronghold in Syria _ a particularly devastating development in a region where scores of hospitals have been bombed and that doctors and nurses have fled in droves during a decade of war. The total number of cases seen in Idlib province _ an overcrowded enclave with a population of 4 million, many of them internally displaced _ has more than doubled since the beginning of August to more than 61,000. In recent weeks, daily new infections have repeatedly shot past 1,500, and authorities reported 34 deaths on Sunday alone _ figures that are still believed to be undercounts because many infected people don't report to authorities. |
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