The Palestinian health ministry on Thursday reported eight new deaths associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) 300 new positive tests and 300 recoveries in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours.
According to the ministry’s daily report four of the victims who died of the virus are from the West Bank and four others from Gaza.
Moreover 51 critically ill COVID-19 patients are being treated in intensive care units and eight of them have been placed on ventilators.
An additional 86 patients are also receiving medical care in hospitals and special COVID-19 treatment centers in the West Bank.
98 percent of the total cases have recovered from the disease while the rate of active cases has reached 1 percent and the rate of deaths is 1 percent of the total cases according to data updated today by the ministry.
