have fledno cases have been reported yet in syrias northwestern idlib province the last bastion of opposition to president bashar assad and where heavy fighting forced nearly a million people to flee their homes earlier this yearzaher sahloul a syrian physician based in chicago who heads medglobal an international health ngo calls that a miraclehe notes that the entire province which is home to 4 million people has 98 ventilators compared to 230 in the advocate christ medical center where he is a critical care specialist an outbreak would be catastrophic he saidthe world health organization has sent 5900 testing kits to idlib where they are being carefully rationed authorities have carried out around 200 tests so far all of which came back negativein jordan the two largest camps for syrian refugees have been sealed since last month in zaatari which has about 80000 residents the jordanian government conducted 150 random tests all of which came back negative said dominik bartsch the head of un refugee agency in jordan residents of azraq home to about 40000 will be tested soonon wednesday in lebanon a palestinian woman from syria became the first refugee living in a camp to test positive sparking fear and a spate of testing by health officials to see if any other residents had been infectedwe dont need the camp managers to tell us how serious the virus is we see it in the news and read about it said an anxious massoud ali 35 who fled syria for a camp in neighboring iraq in october