Opposition-held Syria struggles with COVID

The World

A decade of war has decimated Syria’s health care system. In Idlib province, the last remaining opposition-held area, bombings continue, albeit less frequently than before. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports on the challenges doctors and health care workers face while battling the deadly pandemic.

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