RAMALLAH, Friday, April 10, 2020 (WAFA) – Palestine Friday morning confirmed three new novel coronavirus cases, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the occupied territories to 266.

Speaking in the daily morning briefing, Government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem announced that a young woman, in her 20s, from Halhul city, north of Hebron, tested positive for the deadly virus. She contracted the virus after coming in contact with her infected parents.

He added that the other two cases are for a seven-year-old female child and her 25-year-old sister from Artas village, southwest of Bethlehem.

The child, he elaborated, contracted the virus after being in contact with her mother, who was infected with the virus after coming in contact with her son, who works as maintenance attendant at a bus repair shop in the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Gush Etzion.

Meanwhile, Milhem noted that the samples for 25 suspected cases from Beit Sakarya village, southwest of Bethlehem, were tested, and the test results were all negative.

He added that the number of COVID-19 patients who recovered increased to 45, including nine in the besieged Gaza Strip.

K.F.