Syria steps up fuel rationing as shortages hit mobile network - Reuters

BEIRUT, Nov 29 (Reuters) - Syria announced cuts connected Tuesday to the magnitude of substance it provides to authorities workers to assistance header with shortages that person led a fig of mobile telephone towers to spell offline.

Prime Minister Hussein Arnous ordered a 40% simplification successful the magnitude of substance provided to authorities workers and restrictions connected authoritative question for non-urgent purposes, according to a statement.

Public transport was exempted, said the statement, which blamed shortages connected delays successful shipments and U.S. sanctions.

Subsidised substance is already hard to travel by successful Syria, with radical often waiting weeks for notifications to person little than a afloat vessel of gas. Those who tin bargain non-subsidised substance indispensable brave agelong queues astatine petrol pumps.

Fractured by a much than decennary of struggle that has frozen connected astir fronts, Syria's economical situation is exacting an progressively dense toll that the United Nations says has near much radical than ever successful request of humanitarian aid.

The once-productive Syrian economy, already deed by extended harm to infrastructure and industries during the war, has plunged further since 2019, erstwhile contagion from neighbouring Lebanon's fiscal situation led the Syrian lb to collapse.

Reporting by Timour Azhari Editing by Mark Potter

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