Shafaq News/ The Health Authority of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) registered, on Wednesday, 169 new COVID-19 cases. 

In a press release, Dr. Joan Mustafa, the co-chair of the Health Authority in AANES, said that the authority registered 17 recoveries and five deaths from the complications of the virus in the past 24-hours.

According to Mustafa, the cumulative count of COVID-19 cases in AANES logged into 13,004 confirmed cases, including 437 deaths and 1399 recoveries.