Monday, March 8th, 2021
Mild symptoms
Assad tested positive for coronavirus
It is reported from Syria that a corona test on dictator Assad was positive. The same goes for his wife. According to the information, he is now in quarantine and so far not in the hospital.
Syria's dictator Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma have tested positive for the corona virus. Both are in good health, said the Syrian Presidential Office. The head of state and his wife experienced "mild symptoms" and then subjected themselves to a PCR test. The couple will go into quarantine at home for two to three weeks and continue working from there.
Recently, nothing was known about the 55-year-old president's health complaints. In August, however, he had to interrupt a speech in parliament for a few minutes because of a slight drop in blood pressure, but then continued, as the government said at the time.
In Syria, more than 15,000 corona infections and 1,000 deaths related to the virus have been reported since the pandemic began a good year ago. Aid organizations are warning that the coronavirus is spreading, especially in the northwest of the country. At the end of February, Syria started vaccinating. The health minister said that the vaccine had been received from a "friendly country". Which it was was not mentioned.
According to reports, it was Russia
The media had reported in the past few days that the vaccine for Syria was part of a prisoner swap agreement with the hostile neighboring country Israel. The New York Times reported that Israel, as the broker of the agreement, was paying Russia money so that Moscow could deliver the Russian vaccine Sputnik V to Syria. There is no official confirmation for this.
Assad had taken power in Syria in 2000 from his father Hafiz at the age of 34. A civil war has been raging in the country for ten years. The government troops and Assad's supporters now control a large part of the country again.
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