Under canvas, displaced Syrians face twin threats of COVID, winter cold

NORTH IDLIB, Syria (Reuters) - Displaced from Aleppo, Qassem Ahmad Sharraq Al-Zeit is bracing for a Syrian winter under canvas - with the struggle to keep his wife and four children protected against the bitter cold compounded by the threat of a coronavirus outbreak.

So far, five COVID cases have been reported at the Zuhour camp outside the northwestern cit7y of Idlib, run by the anti-government Free Syrian Army and where Al-Zeit and around 1,000 other Syrians are leading a hand-to-mouth existence.