Syria's ruler Bashar al-Assad has tested positive for the corona virus.
His wife Asma was also infected with the virus.
Damascus - Syria's President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma have tested positive for the coronavirus.
Both are in good health, the Syrian Presidential Office announced on Monday.
The head of state and his wife felt "slight symptoms" and then underwent a PCR test *.
The couple will go into quarantine at home for two to three weeks and continue working from there.
Bashar al-Assad tested positive for the corona virus - virus is spreading in Syria
Recently, nothing was known about the 55-year-old president's health complaints.
In August, however, he had to interrupt a speech in parliament for a few minutes because of a slight drop in blood pressure, but then continued, as the government said at the time.
In Syria, more than 15,000 corona infections and 1,000 deaths related to the virus have been reported since the pandemic began a good year ago.
Aid organizations are warning that the corona is increasingly spreading, especially in the northwest of the country.
Syria's president tested positive for the corona virus - in office for over 20 years
Assad had taken power in Syria in 2000 from his father Hafiz at the age of 34.
A civil war has been raging in the country for ten years.
The government troops and Assad's supporters now control a large part of the country again.
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