UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Reports that Syrian fitness services are filling and expanding death and burial warnings that indicate that real cases of coronavirus in the war-torn country “far exceed official figures” shown by the government, a senior UN humanitarian official said Thursday.
Syria has reported more than 2500 cases of COVID-19, the disease caused by the virus, totaling a hundred deaths.
However, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Ramesh Rajasingham told the UN Security Council that “the growing number of patients puts pressure on Syria’s fragile fitness system, now in its tenth year of war.
Many others are “reluctant to seek re-use in medical facilities, resulting in more severe headaches upon arrival,” he said, adding that “health personnel still lack non-public protective devices and related supplies.”
Among the cases of viruses shown through Syria’s Ministry of Health, Rajasingham said that “the majority cannot be attributed to a known source.” He said several fitness facilities had briefly suspended operations this month due to capacity problems and had become inflamed with the coronavirus.
At the Al Hol camp in northeastern Syria, where 65,000 women and young people are held basically related to Islamic State fighters, Rajasingham said that “12 fitness facilities have had to suspend operations this month due to infection, duty to isolate themselves or lack of -public protection equipment.”
“The two field cash hospitals have resumed operations ever since,” he said.
Germany and Belgium, which are at the rate of Syrian humanitarian problems in the Security Council, said as a whole that “the spread of COVID-19 across the country is expanding exponentially.”
“The functions remain very low, so the maximum instances can go unnoticed,” they said. “The numbers we’re listening to are just the tip of the iceberg.”
They also warned that “the destruction of fitness services and fitness shortages put any response at serious risk.”
Germany and Belgium have greater humanitarian access, harshly criticizing the demands of Russia, Syria’s best friend, which led to the closure of Iraq’s Al Yaroubiya crossing in northeastern Syria in January and the closure last month of the Bab al-Salam crossing between Turkey and northwestern Syria. .
“What is needed is distribution to all other people and fitness services, not to the regime that makes a decision about who is ‘worthy of getting help’ and who is not,” they said. “The burden of duty rests with countries that systematically have limited humanitarian access” to Syria.
U.S. political coordinator Rodney Hunter expressed fear over reports of a “massive coronavirus epidemic in the Damascus domain and regime-controlled domains.”
He called on the Syrian government to allow access to the United Nations and foreign organizations to collect statistics and the scale of the pandemic in the country, and said that so far there has been no “transparency” in the government component.
“The coronavirus is aggravating the Syrian humanitarian crisis,” he said.
Hunter said the United States was “deeply saddened” through reports through the United Nations youth agency UNICEF, before this month that eight young people under the age of five had died in the Al Hol camp in less than a week.
“We sensed that four of those deaths were from complications related to malnutrition,” he said.
“It is possible that these deaths have simply been avoided if the thousands of citizens of the camp were still receiving the important combination” of deliveries from Damascus through the shock lines and from Iraq through the Al Yaroubiya crossing, Hunter said.
Russia’s ambassador to the UN, Vassily Nebenzia, expressed confidence that once logistics were “adjusted,” the UN would accumulate materials through the only remaining border crossing from Turkey to Bab al-Hawa.
He referred to a recent article in the British medical journal, “The Lancet,” which said that “the Syrian fitness system, already fractured by years of conflict, is destroyed by sanctions.”
Entitled “EU directives obstruct humanitarian action to save COVID-19 in Syria,” he says: “Extensive cooperation for the effective delivery of medicines and appliances to combat COVID-19 in Syria is lacking.”
Nebenzia also excelled between 25 August and 3 key foreign powers in the Syrian confrontation: Iran and Russia, which help Syrian President Bashar Assad, and Turkey, which helps the opposition, on the sidelines of a government and opposition assembly in Geneva. figures on the drafting of a new letter from the country.
Those three countries rejected all unilateral sanctions, Nebenzia said.
He denounced the “hypocrisy” and “double weight” of the members of the Security Council who continue with the sanctions opposed to Syria.