Kurdish authorities in the region of northeastern Syria where U.S. troops are based slammed the WHO for failing to inform them until now that a man who died on April 2 was found to have been infected with coronavirus, the first evidence that covid-19 has taken hold in the region.
“We, the health directorate, blame the World Health Organization for the existence and the spread of coronavirus among our citizens, because it has covered up a suspected case and did not inform the autonomous administration,” said the statement.
The World Health Organization should have alerted the authorities, the statement added, because it knows that the Syrian government does not cooperate with the Kurdish authorities.
