PA health minister asks to extend West Bank lockdown for 2 weeks

Palestinian Authority Health Minister Mai al-Kaila recommends that the West Bank coronavirus lockdown, set to end on Wednesday, be extended for another 14 days.

The lockdown commenced on Friday amid record-high increases in the number of daily cases confirmed by the PA.

In the West Bank, 4,575 coronavirus infections have been confirmed since the beginning of the pandemic in March, more than 80 percent of them in the past two weeks.

— Aaron Boxerman

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