Syria postpones a parliamentary election for a second time as part of measures to protect the war-battered country from the coronavirus pandemic.
The Syrian government has recorded 44 cases, including three deaths in areas under its control, while the Kurdish administration in northeastern Syria has reported three cases, including one death.
The president’s office says on its official social media accounts that the vote will be pushed back to July 19, from the scheduled date of May 20, as “part of preventive measures” to combat the virus.
The polls, to be held across government-run areas, are the third since the start nine years ago of a conflict that has killed at least 384,000 people.
They were initially supposed to happen on April 13 before the government in March enforced a lockdown to slow the spread of the virus.
— AFP
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