Global Pandemic: Syria's Civil War Worsened by COVID-19

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🗓️ 14 July 2020

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Syria is one of the many countries across the world that is seeing new coronavirus outbreaks pop up. Major overcrowding and a weak healthcare system with limited resources has left Syria’s Idlib province struggling to simultaneously combat years of ongoing conflict and the virus. FOX’s Trey Yingst speaks with Tue Jakobsen, the Program Director of CARE International for Northwest Syria, on the difficulties of testing and delivering aid to Syria. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.0	Tuesday July 14, 2020.
0:40.0	I'm Trey Inks.
0:42.0	With new COVID-19 hots spots popping up around the world, a nightmare scenario
0:46.3	is unfolding in northern Syria.
0:48.1	The health system is undermined and overloaded. A lot of the infrastructure thatructures that were in place are either damaged or fully destroyed. A lot of the doctors, nurses, surgeons and other specialists that would have taken care of the area have fled.
1:04.0	This is the Fox News rundown, global pandemic.
1:08.0	There are nearly a million people internally displaced from Syria's Idlib province,
1:15.8	after government forces launched an offensive last year to recapture the territory from rebels.
1:21.2	Now, a coronavirus outbreak is threatening this vulnerable population.
1:25.2	Over the next few minutes you'll get the latest headlines on the global COVID-19
1:29.2	outbreak and hear from Tuya Jacobsen, the program director for Care International dealing with
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