Displaced people in the Idlib governorate, Northern Syria, demanded humanitarian and relief organizations and charities not to send them any inedible food meals, especially after dozens of the people, most of them women and children, were poisoned due to eating food meals in a displaced people’s camp near the village of Deir Hassan.   

The Military Hospital in the city of Afrin, Northern Syria, stopped receiving mild cases to conduct tests to people contacted Turkish soldiers who got infected with coronavirus (COVID-19) a few days ago. The Syrian government evacuated its nationals from Russia as the latter came third in the word in terms of cases of COVID-19.

Local and international warning voices about the risk of the spread of COVID-19 in Syria came out early, but the disease already appeared in Northern Syria, affecting one of the guarantors of the Astana Agreement, the Turkish army, which tries to cover the cases in its controlled areas, especially after the Syrian Interim Government denied any COVID-19 case in the Northwestern Syria.

The Syrian government insists on not revealing the real number of COVID-19 cases in the country even with after it announced the return of Syrians coming from abroad, which led several doctors to refuse serving in quarantines of hospitals in central Syria, especially after Jordan prevented the entry of a man with COVID-19 coming from Syria.

Residents and activists protested against the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham's (HTS) attempts to open a crossing near the village of Mizanaz in the western Aleppo countryside, Northern Syria. The HTS opened fire at protesters in the location of the crossing. The shooting killed a civilian and injured others. Activists revealed to SMART that there are plans to organize demonstrations against crossings that the Syrian National Army (SNA) opens with the Syrian government and Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).

On Friday night, the Syrian government responded to the businessman Rami Maklhouf, the maternal cousin of president Bashar al-Assad, saying that the two mobile network providers, Syriatel and MTN, are required to pay 233.8 billion Syrian pounds.  

The Syrian government hides details of people infected with coronavirus (COVID-19). By the time the University Hospital in the city of Aleppo, Northern Syria, receives new cases of the virus, the Syrian government’s Health Ministry announced five cases of recovery. The ministry said nothing about the new confirmed or suspected cases.

The international community tries hard to fight coronavirus (COVID-19), as its attention turns towards the countries whose health systems pass a state of revival. The World Health Organization allocated $35 million to fight COVID-19 in Northern Syria; however, the Syrian Interim Government denied receiving any single penny.

Medical sources in the city of Latakia, Western Syria, doubt the validity of tests' results sent from Damascus for people suspected to be infected with coronavirus (COVID-19). The Syrian Interim Government’s Health Ministry emphasized that medical centers in Northern Syria are too poor to face the pandemic, as deaths continue to increase in Syria’s neighboring countries and Iran.