RAMALLAH, Monday, June 22, 2020 (WAFA) –Minister of Health Mai Alkaila said today that 12 new coronavirus cases were confirmed in the occupied West Bank, bringing today‘s total to 168 and the overall number of cases in Palestine to 1196.

She said in a statement that three cases were recorded in the city of Hebron, one in nearby Dura and eight in Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank.

Out of the total cases, 929 are in the West Bank, 72 in the Gaza Strip and 195 in occupied East Jerusalem.

Total of 597 have recovered in Palestine, including 385 in the West Bank has, 57 in the Gaza Strip and 155 in East Jerusalem.

Five deaths were recorded – two in West Bank, two in East Jerusalem and one in Gaza.

M.K.