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UN official: COVID cases likely far higher than Syria says

by Associated Press
| August 27, 2020 1:03 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Reports of Syrian health care facilities filling up and increasing death notices and burials appear to indicate that actual coronavirus cases in the war-torn country “far exceed official figures” confirmed by the government, a senior U.N. humanitarian official said Thursday.

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