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Covid-19 Coronavirus Outbreak In The Middle East -- March 09, 2020

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Risk of outbreak is especially high in Syria's northwest, where three million people are trapped in shrinking rebel bastion (AFP)

NBC: Stopping coronavirus spread in Syrian refugee camps is 'mission impossible,' Turkish ambassador says

Turkey's U.S. ambassador also said the E.U. must help his country absorb Syrian refugees after Ankara said it won't stop refugees from crossing into Europe.

WASHINGTON — Turkey's ambassador to the United States, Serdar Kilic, says the European Union must do more to help his country absorb an influx of refugees from the war in neighboring Syria after Ankara said it would not stop refugees from leaving Turkey to enter E.U. territory.

Kilic also said his country had taken steps to bolster security on its border with Iran to counter the threat of the coronavirus but that trying to prevent the spread of the virus in refugee camps in Syria would be a "mission impossible."

"We have reached the limits of our capabilities" to accept refugees, Kilic told reporters. "We told them, if you want to leave Turkey, you are free to do so. We have been hosting those people around eight years in Turkey."

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