RAMALLAH, Friday, April 10, 2020 (WAFA) – The government‘s spokesman Ibrahim Milhem confirmed on Friday evening a new case of novel COVID-19 (coronavirus), bringing up the total cases in Palestine to 267.

Milhem said in a statement that the new case belongs to a man from the town of Bani Na‘im in Hebron Governorate, south of the occupied West Bank. The man contracted the disease during his work at a cookies factory in Israel.

Of note, most cases confirmed in Palestine so far came from Israel, an epicenter of the disease, or from people who had contact with patients who contracted the disease during their work in Israel.

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