RAMALLAH, Saturday, November 14, 2020 (WAFA) – Ten people have died of coronavirus in the West Bank and Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours, 653 new cases were recorded and 424 patients have recovered, today said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila in her daily report on coronavirus in Palestine. No data was available on East Jerusalem cases.

She said nine of the deaths were in the West Bank, including a 24-year-old woman while the rest were over 66 years of age, and one death in the Gaza Strip.

The new cases included 343 in the West Bank, including 95 in the Nablus district and 72 in Ramallah district, and 310 new cases in the Gaza Strip.

A total of 129 patients have recovered in the West Bank and 295 in the Gaza Strip, said the Minister, who put the recoveries at 87.9 percent of the total since the outbreak of the disease in Palestine in March, as 11.2 percent remain active and 0.9 percent have died.

Alkaila said 40 patients remain in intensive care units in hospitals, among them nine are on respirators.

M.K.