The Palestinian health ministry on Tuesday reported 16 new deaths associated with COVID-19 (coronavirus) and 2536 new positive tests and 1032 recoveries in the West Bank Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip during the last 24 hours.
According to the ministry’s daily report six of the new victims who died of the virus are from different areas of the West Bank one from Jerusalem and nine from Gaza.
64 critically ill COVID-19 patients are also receiving intensive care in hospitals and 13 of them have been placed on ventilators.
77.3 percent of the total cases have recovered from the disease while the rate of active cases has reached 21.9 percent and the rate of deaths is 0.8 percent of the total cases according to data updated today by the ministry.
