A municipal worker wearing protective gear sprays spray disinfectant as a precaution against the coronavirus, at a church in Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, March 22, 2020. Lebanon has been taking strict measures to limit the spread of the coronavirus closing restaurants and nightclubs as well as schools and universities. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)
March 22, 2020
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March 22, 2020 4:44 p.m.
Virus now in Gaza, Syria, raising fears in vulnerable areas
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — The arrival of the coronavirus in the Gaza Strip, an impoverished enclave where the health care system has been gutted by years of conflict, and Syria, which has been devastated by nine years of civil war and sanctions, raised fears Sunday that the pandemic may soon prey on some of the most vulnerable populations in the world.