The Gaza Strip has reached a new record high of 2,335 active coronavirus cases, the Hamas-run health ministry says.
According to Hamas health authorities, the coastal enclave has confirmed 276 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours, a daily record. Around 13% of coronavirus tests came back positive, indicating that further infections are likely spreading undetected.
Over 2 million Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip. After fourteen years of a blockade by both Israel and Egypt, in addition to wars between Israel and the Hamas terror group, the Strip is poorly equipped to deal with a full-fledged outbreak.
Hamas officials set 2,000 active cases and 250 cases per day as the upper bound for control over the virus when new coronavirus cases began appearing in August outside designated quarantine centers. They warned that any infections beyond that could pose a serious threat to Gaza’s ailing health care system.
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