Human rights experts warily eyeing the first cases of coronavirus in Syria renewed their long-ignored calls for an end to the war on Saturday, this time in the name of taking urgent health measures to avert further catastrophe.
As the first few cases of COVID-19 were reported over the past few days in the war-ravaged nation, the U.N.’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria called on all parties to the war to immediately cease fighting and allow health workers to protect civilians from the spreading pandemic.
