By Al Jazeera
(Suggestion by Petros Petrikkos)
![On March 15, Cyprus shut its borders to all except Cypriots, European workers and those with special permits for a period of two weeks [File: Yiannis Kourtoglou/Reuters]](http://www.aljazeera.com/mritems/imagecache/mbdxxlarge/mritems/Images/2020/3/30/c46a749278584364baafc5af78c57962_18.jpg "Cyprus pushes Syrian refugees back at sea due to coronavirus")
Nearly 200 Syrian asylum seekers are stranded in northern Cyprus after they were pushed back in the middle of the sea by authorities in the government-controlled south.
Quarantined and under threat of deportation, they have become the latest victims of a multiplying border shutdown as countries grapple with the advance of coronavirus […]
Source: Cyprus pushes Syrian refugees back at sea due to coronavirus | News | Al Jazeera