Health
06-12-2022
As the cholera endemic continues unabated, the Ministry of Health recently received two million cholera vaccine doses – the first to reach the country since the outbreak was declared in September.
22-11-2022
Jordan has recently issued new measures to regulate Syrian food products as cholera continues to spread in Syria.
11-10-2022
After a decade of zero cases in Syria, cholera cases have risen at an alarming rate across the country.
13-09-2022
As cholera cases rise and water supplies dwindle, the Syrian government recently began operating a new water desalination plant in the Hassakeh governorate in an effort to provide potable water to residents. The plants are only meant to be used in cases of emergency, i.e. in a situation of a dramatic shortage in water supplies, likely to preserve underground water reserves. So far, the government has only activated fifteen out of the twenty plants.
29-03-2022
Last week, the government raised the prices of pharmaceutical drugs produced by the public sector after authorising the private sector to increase its prices in February.
25-01-2022
Last year, the total number of COVID-19 cases in all of Syria increased by 354 percent compared with 2020, while only a fraction of the population has been fully or partially vaccinated, according to the World Health Organisation. Meanwhile, Syria’s vaccination rate remains one of the lowest in the region.
16-11-2021
The World Health Organisation announced that Syria received over 1.3 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the largest batch to arrive in the country via the COVAX Facility since the first delivery of vaccines in April.
02-11-2021
Last month, dozens of fungal infections were reported in government-held areas, as well as in rural Idlib, which falls under opposition control.
06-10-2021
Since the beginning of September, Syria witnessed a spike in positive COVID-19 cases and an increase in COVID-19-related deaths, straining Syria’s already fragile healthcare system.
01-09-2021
The Ministry of Health said on August 25 that 219,500 Syrians living in areas under its control, representing between one and two percent of the population, had been vaccinated against the Covid-19.
30-06-2021
The Ministry of Health announced this week that all health workers in government-held areas had been vaccinated as the Syrian Ambassador in Moscow said Syria had received its first shipment of the Russian vaccine early this month.
23-06-2021
The Syrian government recently approved a 30 percent increase in the prices of locally produced medicines in a concession to manufacturers who have threatened to halt production since the deterioration of the Syrian pound has decimated their profits.
16-06-2021
Despite intensive media campaigns encouraging Syrians to register for COVID-19 vaccines over the past month, take-up among the population appears to be modest and none of the various administrations in Syria have released official statistics on the progress of their vaccination drive.
02-06-2021
The administration in charge of northeast Syria has received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines and begun administering them to health workers as the number of positive cases across the country continues to tick up.
12-05-2021
The Ministry of Health has launched an electronic platform and asked Syrians and non-Syrians living in areas under its control to register their names in order to manage a vaccination campaign launched last week, beginning with health workers.
05-05-2021
A Covid-19 vaccination campaign has begun in northwest Syria after 53,800 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccines were allocated to the area by the World Health Organisation.
28-04-2021
The Syrian government announced this week it had received 203,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine via the COVAX facility in addition to 150,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine.
21-04-2021
Updated April/27/2021: The number of positive Covid-19 cases jumped by 2,530 last week, with more than half of them recorded in northeast Syria despite a full curfew there.
14-04-2021
The UAE has donated vaccines to Syria as the country grapples with a third wave of the pandemic.
07-04-2021
The Syrian government has ordered its ministries to temporarily close and/or reduce working hours to a minimum until April 15, as a third wave of the coronavirus pandemic sweeps over the country. The government said the decision on April 04 was in response to the accelerating spread of the pandemic as well as fuel shortages.
