Millions at risk from Covid surge in Syria amid test and oxygen shortages

In country where 90% of population live in poverty, situation is deteriorating extremely rapidly'

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Aid agencies and the UN have warned that a rapid and accelerating" wave of coronavirus and shortages of equipment such as tests and oxygen is putting millions of people across conflict-ravaged Syria at risk from the virus.

While the official Covid-19 death toll in Syria is low compared with other parts of the Middle East, credible data collection is almost impossible, and the country is vulnerable: 10 years of war have devastated the infrastructure, economy and healthcare systems.