RAMALLAH, Thursday, February 04, 2021 (WAFA) – Eight people have died of the novel coronavirus disease in the last 24 hours in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, 661 new cases were recorded, and 419 patients have recovered, today said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila in her daily report on coronavirus in Palestine. No data was available from East Jerusalem.

She said that seven of the deaths were in the West Bank, which recorded 461 new cases, and 144 recoveries, and one in the Gaza Strip, which had 200 new cases, and 275 recoveries.

Alkaila said 55 corona patients are currently in intensive care, among them 20 are on respirators.

She said that 94 percent of the total corona cases recorded since the outbreak in Palestine in March of last year have recovered, 4.9 percent are still active, and 1.1 percent have died.

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