In cooperation with Health Committee and Fire Brigade, the Committee of Local Administration and Municipalities in Tabqa launched on Sunday a sterilization campaign for the city’s neighborhoods, as one of the precautionary measures taken by the Autonomous Administration to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

In the first stage, the campaign concerns the neighborhoods and the public places in the countryside. They started cleaning the city’s streets, sidewalks and shops before they the sterilization works.

Mohammad Shaker Al Hoshan, the co-chair of the Hygiene Department in the municipality, pointed out that the sterilization teams are equipped with needed materials and cleaning machines like water tanks and firefighters.

He added that the campaign will continue until the completion of all the city and streets. The efforts will then continue with the sterilization of the institutions and the directorates of the Civil Administration.

Al-Hoshan noted that the works are conducted in line with the precautionary measures declared by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, which imposed a 15-day curfew in the region starting on March 23 that could be extended if necessary to prevent the spread of the deadly coronavirus, which is categorized by the World Health Organization as a pandemic.