The Syrian Ministry of Health announced today, Sunday, the death of a person infected with the Corona virus, immediately after entering the hospital with an ambulance, the first death of the virus recorded in Syria.

According to the Syrian News Agency (SANA), the Ministry of Health said in a statement that "a woman died upon entering the hospital with an ambulance," adding that "after the necessary test was taken, she was a carrier of the Corona virus, and thus the number of cases registered with the virus in Syria will be six." One of them died.