By: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
In an article entitled “How Syria managed to control Corona with such success?”, The American Herald Tribune reviewed the measures that Syria had taken and the successes it had achieved in confronting the Corona virus, despite its Western economic blockade.
The newspaper pointed out in an article by writer Tim Anderson that Syria dealt with a lot of intelligence with the Corona pandemic and succeeded to a great extent in containing it with little damage and the lowest number of injuries and deaths compared to countries of the region and the world.
She said: This was not because of luck, nor by practicing the Swedish method of non-interference. On the contrary, it came through a rapid and decisive response to the Syrian government, which took the threat of the virus seriously and communicated and maintained confidence with the Syrian people and imposed strong quarantine controls at first, but with Keeping it as flexible as possible and imposing quarantine measures quickly even long before the first infection is discovered.
The newspaper pointed out that the Syrian government formed an emergency committee to follow up on the matter and set up a national plan of action to confront the virus, in addition to developing diagnostic kits, quarantine facilities and training medical staff even before any cases of the virus were discovered.
Soon after the first case was discovered, the government imposed a curfew at night, to prevent large gatherings, although curfews were rarely resorted to even during nine years of war.
This rapid response helps explain why there were less than 200 cases as of June 18 and only 7 deaths in Syria. This is despite the fact that the country is still occupied by three foreign armies and their terrorist groups.
The newspaper emphasized that the general Syrian approach is similar to the Cuban approach, as there was daily information from the health authorities, and strong quarantine measures were imposed even before the infection was detected, and severe closures were imposed on the whereabouts of the infection.
The newspaper pointed out that Syria had achieved the best results in the region and although it was facing a “siege of genocide” imposed by the United States and the European Union, it was able to effectively defend public health. The herd. ”Or when US President Donald Trump said that warmer weather would kill the virus, the Syrian government acted quickly and decisively to protect the Syrian people.
