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Syria virus death traced to Kurdish-run northeast region

by Associated Press
| April 17, 2020 12:03 PM

BEIRUT (AP) — A 53-year-old male resident of Syria’s Kurdish-administered northeast died earlier this month from COVID-19, the illness caused by the new coronavirus, according to an email from the World Health Organization obtained by The Associated Press on Friday.

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