RAMALLAH, Saturday, August 08, 2020 (WAFA) – Six Palestinians have died of coronavirus, four of them in occupied East Jerusalem, and 426 new cases, 220 of them in Jerusalem, were recorded in Palestine in the last 24 hours, today said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila.
She said in the daily corona briefing that 496 patients have also recovered, registering 55 percent of the total cases since March.
The Minister expressed concern that the cases have been on the rise in East Jerusalem.
Of the dead, two were in Hebron district in the south of the West Bank and four in East Jerusalem.
Ten patients remain in intensive care while none of them are on respirators.
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