Monitoring and tracking the developments of coronavirus outbreaks in regime-held areas, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented a spike in the number of infection cases and deaths.

Accordingly, over 4,100 new Covid-19 ere wasw recorded in regime-held areas in the past few days, while 275 other cases died of the virus in the same period.

“Meanwhile, most of the infection cases and deaths are still documented in the provinces of Aleppo, Damascus and Rif Dimashq, amid disastrous medical situation. Moreover, regime authorities continue misinformation and keeping the real number of deaths and infection cases with coronavirus secret,” SOHR said.

According to SOHR latest statistics, based on reports obtained from reliable medical sources in regime-controlled areas, the total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases has reached nearly 30,050, of whom 3,900 recovered and and 1,605 died. The cases are distributed across all Syrian provinces. However, most of the deaths and infections have been in Aleppo, Damascus and Rif Dimashq.