Idlib province, the last pocket of rebel-held territory in Syria, is already facing one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. There haven’t yet been any confirmed coronavirus cases in Idlib, but U.N. and other foreign officials fear that it’s only a matter of time. Humanitarian groups are bracing for the coronavirus to sweep into the province, where they fear it would spread like wildfire among displaced populations without access to adequate health care.
Foreign Policy: Syria’s forgotten war is a pandemic time bomb
Members of the Syrian civil defence, known as the White Helmets, disinfect a former school building currently inhabited by displaced families in the rebel-held town of Binnish in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, on March 26, 2020, as part of the efforts to prevent the spread of the coronavirus epidemic.
