Update: Coronavirus crisis in North and East Syria – week ending 27 September

Coronavirus crisis, News, Report

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Our latest weekly update on the coronavirus crisis in North and East Syria finds:

Director of National Hospital in Raqqa refusing to wear face-mask in protest at short
supply
Infamous former ISIS prison in Raqqa’s ‘black stadium’ turned into coronavirus confinement center
This week sees highest daily increase in coronavirus cases to date, with 95 new cases
recorded on Wednesday
2 health workers in Deir-ez-Zor diagnosed with disease, corona facilities yet to host
a single patient
This week saw a 25% decrease (331, 247) in new recorded cases, but a 21% rise in
new cases

Download the full report here, and contact Rojava Information Center for further comment and analysis.

September 27, 2020/by Rojava IC

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"Rehabilitating the infrastructure & providing a safe & decent life for the population will contribute greatly to ending [ISIS]."

This morning, Swedish MinDef @PeterHultqvist spoke to @MazloumAbdi & top AANES official Badran Jia Kurd about the threat of an ISIS resurgence.

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18 Apr

Sunday, the Autonomous Administration handed 34 Russian orphan children of ISIS mercenaries over to a delegation of the Russian Federation.

The delegation was headed by Anna Kuznetsova of the Child Rights Commission to the Russian President.

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15 Apr

“We predict an increase in the next months, due to the fact that in both 2019 and 2020, during the month of May, around the time of Ramadan, attacks increased drastically,” @RojavaIC's researcher Robin Fleming was quoted in a new @K24English article.

https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/24292

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14 Apr

Our new March Sleeper-Cell Report tracks the recent security operation in Hol Camp, finds steady number of attacks & worrying trends in Deir-ez-Zor region.

📌 Little change in number of of raids & attacks since February, with 15 raids & 27 attacks this month

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13 Apr

"NES is experiencing its all-time highest Coronavirus rates."

Our COVID coverage was quoted in Al-Monitor this morning. As of this time, almost all of NES' regions are under lockdown.

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