The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria health board on Friday recorded 17 deaths, the highest so far in this new wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
The Administration has therefore declared a lockdown that begins today and will end on 9 October.
The lockdown involves all institutions, including schools. Shops selling foodstuffs and vegetables will remain open from 8am to 1pm. Hospitals, essential workers, agricultural workers and humanitarian crossing points are excluded from the lockdown.
The Health Committee said that on Saturday 9 people died of coronavirus while 151 new cases were detected. The breakdown is as follows: 2 women and a man died in Hesekê, a woman and a man in Qamishlo, a man in Rimêlan and a woman in Kobanê.
The Health Committee announced that 88 of the 151 people who tested positive for coronavirus were men, 63 were women, and 8 people recovered.
With the latest data, the number of people who caught coronavirus in Northern and Eastern Syria reached 28, 265, 994 people died and 2,180 people recovered.