'We're scared': Coronavirus hits Syria's war-torn Idlib

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Three doctors and a nurse tested positive for the novel coronavirus in Syria's northwest Idlib governorate, the first cases to emerge in the region, raising fears it could rapidly spread through densely populated camps for internally displaced Syrians.

Idlib has been the scene of fierce fighting since Syrian government forces launched an offensive in late 2019 [File: Khalil Ashawi/Reuters]

The number of people living in the sprawling camps has increased in recent months after Russian-backed Syrian government forces launched a campaign to regain control of the last rebel-held bastion in the war-torn country.

"The first case of the new coronavirus was confirmed on Thursday night. He is a doctor working in Bab al-Hawa border hospital," Emad Zahran, media manager at Idlib's health directorate, said on Saturday, adding the physician appeared to have contracted the virus during a visit to his family in Turkey last month.

"The patient developed symptoms including a dry cough and a high temperature last week. He was tested in Idlib and the results came back as positive. He has been quarantining since," Zahran told Al Jazeera.

The health directorate said it immediately asked all doctors, patients, and other staff at Bab al-Hawa hospital to quarantine as tests for the coronavirus were conducted on people who visited the facility since June 25.

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Maram al-Sheikh, the minister of health in Syria's interim government, told Al Jazeera a couple of days after the first infection was confirmed, three more people tested positive. Two were doctors and one was a nurse working in Idlib. 

By Al- Helalee

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