He said COVID-19 related aid is already in warehouses in Iraq “waiting to get in.”The United Nations began cross-border aid deliveries in 2014 to get food, medicine and other humanitarian items to opposition-held areas of Syria. There had been four crossing points, two from Turkey to the mainly rebel-held northwest, one from Jordan to southern Syria and one from Iraq to the northeast.

Source: International New York Times April 28, 2020 21:22 UTC