More than 200 UN staff have been infected by COVID-19 in Syria as the global body steps up contingency plans to combat the fast spread of the pandemic in the country.
UN Resident Co-ordinator and Humanitarian Co-ordinator in Syria, Imran Riza, has told UN heads of agencies in a letter to distribute to staff the UN is in the final stages of securing a medical facility for treatment of cases.
Humanitarian workers and medics say the real number of cases is considerably higher, including the hundreds of staff employed by NGO partners working for the dozen UN agencies that oversee the country's largest humanitarian relief operations.
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