Gaza health authorities have identified 600 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, setting a new record for daily infections in the coastal enclave for the third consecutive day.
The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry says that 22 percent of tests came back positive in the past 24 hours, indicating that the virus could be spreading widely undetected. As recently as a week and a half ago, only 5%-10% of tests were coming back positive.
There are currently 3,806 active coronavirus infections in the Gaza Strip, the Health Ministry says. Around 234 have been hospitalized and 61 are critically ill, according to Gaza health official Majdi Daher. Hamas has previously said that it has around 500 ICU beds in its health care system.
A Palestinian man and his wife ride a donkey cart past street art showing doctors mask-clad due to the COVID-19 pandemic in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 16, 2020. (MOHAMMED ABED / AFP)
Four Gazans died of COVID-19 in the past 24 hours. According to the Health Ministry, 54 Gazans have died of the virus since March.
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