{"id":89131,"date":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/actionpal.ahmadalkhuleyf.net\/post\/9893\/"},"modified":"2020-03-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-28T21:00:00","slug":"9893","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/post\/9893","title":{"rendered":"Closure of Syria Schools Extended over Coronavirus Propagation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As part of the Syrian government&#8217;s anti-coronavirus measures, the Education Ministry decided to extend the closure of the public and private schools and institutes from April 2 to April 16, 2020.<\/div>\n<div>The government also decided to extend the closure of public and private universities and higher institutes till April 16.<\/div>\n<div>In an earlier decision, the Education Ministry had suspended public and private schools from March 14 to April 2, 2020.<\/div>\n<div>Though the Syrian government reported only one case of coronavirus infection throughout the war-ravaged country, there are growing fears that a large outbreak in Palestinian refugee camps in Syria could be particularly catastrophic.<\/div>\n<div>AGPS fears the coronavirus could spread quickly in overcrowded displacement camps, where neither hygiene kit nor medical equipment are accessible.<\/div>\n<div>Though campaigns to help spread awareness among the camps&#8217; residents have recently seen the day, limited access to running water, pharmacies and medical facilities mean displacement camps are more susceptible to the spread of the highly infectious virus.<\/div>\n<div>Displacement camps set up in northern Syria are especially vulnerable as most hospitals and medical facilities have been bombed, rendering them out of order.<\/div>\n<div>A few days earlier, health officials in war-battered Syria have announced the first case of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, as authorities in the country halted all public transportation in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.<\/div>\n<div>Health Minister Nizar Yazji told a news conference in the capital Damascus on Sunday that \u201cnecessary measures\u201dhad been taken to ensure that the patient, a 20-year-old woman who had come from abroad, was quarantined for 14 days.<\/div>\n<div>Earlier, the government shut down schools, parks, restaurants and various public institutions, and called off army conscription.<\/div>\n<div>Syria&#8217;s healthcare system, among other infrastructure, has been ravaged by nine years of war.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of the Syrian government&#8217;s anti-coronavirus measures, the Education Ministry decided to extend the closure of the public and private schools and institutes from April 2 to April 16, 2020. The government also decided to extend the closure of public and private universities and higher institutes till April 16. In an earlier decision, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":61439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-89131","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/actionpal.tech\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}