RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 30, 2021 (WAFA) – Eleven new cases of the British coronavirus mutation have been detected in several areas of the West Bank, today said the director-general of Supportive Medical Services at the Palestinian Ministry of Health, Osama Najjar, bringing the overall number of infections with this mutation in Palestine to 28.
Najjar told WAFA that five of the cases were for one family in Deir Jarir village and two in nearby Taybeh, east of Ramallah. Two others were detected in al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, and two more in Bethlehem in the south of the West Bank.
He said that the symptoms of the British mutation are almost identical to the rest of those infected with the virus.
He pointed out that there are 17 other suspected cases still being checked in the laboratories.
Najjar said that the source of the British mutation is not yet known, but that the preventive medicine teams are working on tracking it.
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