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Syrians prepare for new battle with invisible foe: COVID-19

Syrian civilians prepare for a new battle with invisible foe: coronavirus

06/10/2020

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Syrians prepare for new battle with invisible foe: COVID-19

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Syrian civilians prepare for a new battle with invisible foe: coronavirus

The brutal war in Syria is now in its 10th year, and amid renewed bombing by the air corps of Bashar al-Assad and his Russian backers, a new worry looms: coronavirus. The country’s health care system has been destroyed in the conflict, and people who have already suffered so much are now rushing to produce homemade COVID-19 tests, ventilators and disinfectant. Nick Schifrin reports.

06/10/2020

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