Regime’s Interior Ministry closes border crossings with Lebanon

Regime’s Ministry of Interior announced the closure of all crossings for the movement of arrivals from Lebanon, including Syrian citizens, from midnight on March 23, 2020 until further notice, except trucks, with conducting the necessary medical checks for drivers at border posts.

This decision comes after Syrian regime announced first case of infection yesterday and to reduce the spread of Coronavirus.

Meanwhile, SOHR sources have reported a coronavirus infected man managed to escape a quarantine center in Latakia.

Regime said that first coronavirus case was a female came from Lebanon by road after returning from a European country.

According to Observatory sources in Damascus, Homs, Latakia and Tartus, the number of cases that have been quarantined as a result of the outbreak of the virus (COVID-19) has risen to 128 cases, 56 were discharged from quarantine after the tests’ results were negative. 72 cases are still in quarantine awaiting the results of the tests, according to medical sources, a nurse has died of infection, but regime security authorities demanded complete secrecy.