Leaving Syrian refugees behind in the vaccination drive is self-defeating A member of the Kurdish Internal Security Forces of Asayesh urges children to return home, in Syria's northeastern city of Hasakeh on April 30, 2020, following measures taken by the Kurdish-led local authorities there, to limit the spread of the novel coronavirus. AFP Children wear face masks sewed by displaced Syrian women at a camp for the internally displaced people near the town of Maaret Misrin in Syria's northwestern Idlib province on July 27, 2020 amid the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. AFP Members of Syrian Civil Defence, also known as the White Helmets, transport the body of a man who died from the Covid-19 coronavirus for burial in Syria's rebel-held northwestern city of Idlib on November 19, 2020. AFP