Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "COVID-19 pandemic in Syria" in English language version.
The W.H.O. official and the Kurdish administration [...] said a 53-year-old man was admitted to a hospital on March 27. Doctors ran a test for the coronavirus and sent it to the Syrian capital, Damascus, for analysis. The man died on April 2, the same day that his test came back positive.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)It is not clear why the death, although reported to WHO, is not in the Syrian government's official tally, which has so far reported two deaths, the last on March 30. The man died in a government-run hospital in Qamishli and was tested positive in a Damascus government lab
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)The W.H.O. official and the Kurdish administration [...] said a 53-year-old man was admitted to a hospital on March 27. Doctors ran a test for the coronavirus and sent it to the Syrian capital, Damascus, for analysis. The man died on April 2, the same day that his test came back positive.