From leftovers from worn clothes and a little rubber, Umm Hassan strives to sew homemade masks for her three children in Dabiq camp in Aleppo countryside, northern Syria, in an attempt to prevent the Corona epidemic from reaching her family.
More than 20 cases have been recorded in opposition areas in northern Syria, and the pandemic threatens thousands of people fleeing the inferno of fighting.
Umm Hassan, 43, says that every day she collects some cloth from old clothing to sew masks, after the family was unable to purchase medical masks from pharmacies in the town because of the high price and lack of permanent availability.
Umm Hassan, who is a displaced woman from Aleppo, in her interview with Al-Jazeera Net, indicates that the camp residents did not think about preventing the epidemic until after the civil defense teams launched a comprehensive sterilization campaign for the camp, distributing awareness leaflets and some boxes of sterilization materials and muzzles to its residents to prevent the epidemic reaching them .
The forty-year-old IDP hopes that her family and her family will be safe from disease after their escape from the regime's and Russian ally’s bombing of Aleppo and miraculous bombing of Aleppo, and she believes in the end that "the protector of God" according to her words.
Social divergence
Despite the warnings of the Ministry of Health in the opposition government to avoid gatherings and urged them to wear medical masks, it is difficult to apply this in the camp on mud terrain that lacks a network of drinking water and sanitation, where the tents stick together to take advantage of the lowest possible space, so two families are forced to live In one tent.
The displaced person from Idlib, Marwan Al-Hamad, believes that the camp's residents adhere to the conditions of social separation and wearing a muzzle, not exceeding 10%, in light of the crowded population and standing in lines to obtain water from the manholes.
On the impact of the heat wave hitting the region, Al-Hamad, 29, asserts that he can barely sit for an hour only during the day, as the burning sun rays forces him and the camp men to shade the trees near the camp.
Concerning sterilization materials and medical muzzles, Al-Hamad told Al-Jazeera Net that it is very expensive, and not one of the priorities of the camp residents who are looking for their daily strength as the Eid approaches.
He added that a relief organization distributed some masks and sterilizers to the residents for once, and it was later consumed.
Focus of the epidemic
As of Sunday evening, 29 cases of Corona virus were recorded in the Syrian opposition-held areas in the north of Syria, according to data from the Idlib Health Directorate, amid statements warning of a humanitarian catastrophe if the virus reached the northern camps.
The head of the "Response Coordinators" team, Muhammad Hallaj, says that the number of Syrian northern camps has reached 1277, of which 366 are random camps that do not receive any aid or support, while the population of those camps amounts to more than 1.4 million civilians, of whom 183 thousand reside in the random camps. .
The team warns of an increase in the number of people infected with the Coronavirus, if no necessary measures and measures are taken, and fears that infections will be recorded in the camps spread in the region and transformed into a large epidemic outpost that is difficult to control, especially since most of the camps lack the basic requirements to confront Corona.