Virus surge threatens northeast Syria camps, Save the Children warns - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Apr 15, 2021

Roj camp — A group of women, reportedly the wives of suspected Islamic State (IS) group fighters, pose March 28, 2021, for a picture at the Roj camp where relatives of suspected IS members are held, in the countryside near al-Malikiyah (Derik) in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province. The women have abandoned the black all-covering face veils and niqabs they wore previously for everyday clothes. — DELIL SOULEIMAN/AFP via Getty Images

A surge of coronavirus cases could worsen an already dire humanitarian situation in northeast Syria’s displacement camps, Save the Children said Thursday.

The charity said 46 COVID-19 cases have been reported this month across three camps for displaced people in the Kurdish-controlled part of Syria, which on Tuesday announced a 10-day lockdown aimed at staving off a new wave of the virus.

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