Corona enters its second year in Syria with the highest daily toll

Damascus-Sana

A year ago, Syria recorded its first case of Corona for a girl coming from abroad, and today in its official outcome more than 17 thousand, 400 cases and 1163 deaths, and within a year the country went through three escalating curves of the pandemic, while preventive measures took an intensified course at the beginning, the severity of which gradually decreased in consideration of the economic and social conditions.

The Ministry of Health announced the first case on March 22, 2020, to record between July and August and in mid-October of the same year, two ascending curves, and since the last quarter of February this year, it has monitored an increase in the number of injuries recorded yesterday, Sunday, the highest number since a year, with 171 new cases.

The Ministry of Health preceded the arrival of the pandemic in the country by announcing a national plan to prevent the virus in February 2020, including the application of strict health measures at border crossings and the application of a 14-day quarantine for all those coming from outside the country, followed by government measures in March represented by the suspension of visits and trips, including religious tourism. And the suspension of working hours in universities and schools.

After announcing the first case of Corona, the government intensified its procedures, as it announced on March 24, 2020, a curfew within and between the governorates and the closure of all commercial activities and shops during the period of the ban, and these measures were gradually lifted in consideration of the economic and social situation and were not applied again.

With the increase in the number of infections, the Ministry of Health allocated quarantine and health isolation centers in various governorates, equipped several laboratories to detect the virus and imposed isolation in some areas that recorded high cases of infection, with investigation teams to monitor suspected cases in all regions and launched a campaign to strengthen protection measures for health personnel after the increase in cases of infection. And death is among them.

Coinciding with the second upward curve, last October, the Ministry of Health put an emergency hospital in Al-Faiha gymnasium in Damascus in service and an emergency management room to regulate the movement of ambulances transporting Corona patients.

The Ministry of Health implemented the emergency plan in hospitals for the first time on the second of December, as the Ministry requested to stop cold operations in hospitals, to continue work for emergency and surgical cases of tumors, and to expand within the hospital departments for the benefit of Corona patients. On the sixth of this March, it requested hospitals to prepare to move to a plan. Emergency services in case of need, and on the twentieth of this month, it announced the suspension of cold operations in a number of Damascus hospitals, and the preparation of a destroyed hospital as a specialized hospital for Corona patients.

And in the last week of last February, the Ministry of Health announced the start of administering the vaccine against the Coronavirus to health workers most vulnerable to infection, who are working in isolation centers, with priority for the older age group.

According to the casualty map distribution, Damascus comes first, followed by Lattakia, then Aleppo, Homs, and the Damascus countryside. As for the deaths, Damascus records the highest deaths, followed by Homs, Tartous, Lattakia, and Aleppo.

Inas Svan