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by Israel Hayom / JNS.org
A woman receives a vaccination against COVID-19 at a temporary Clalit healthcare maintenance organisation (HMO) centre, at a basketball court in Petah Tikva, Israel January 28, 2021. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
JNS.org – The so-called UK variant of the COVID-19 virus has made its way to the Gaza Strip, Gaza health officials reported on Sunday.
The Hamas-run Health Ministry in Gaza reported on Saturday evening that the number of identified cases stood at 1,628, out of 3,728 tests processed—representing a morbidity rate of 44 percent.
A Gaza health official said on Saturday that the true number of COVID cases in Gaza was much higher, citing a shortage of tests. The official said that for every identified positive, there were four new cases that went unidentified. The spike in new cases was attributed to the B.1.1.7 variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
There is only one hospital in the Gaza Strip that treats COVID-19 patients.
In the past few weeks, a few shipments of vaccine doses have arrived in Gaza, mostly the Russian Sputnik V vaccine, whose delivery was organized by exiled Palestinian politician Mohammad Dahlan and the United Arab Emirates. The Gaza Health Ministry has reported that 24,132 residents have been vaccinated.
Hamas religious authorities in Gaza announced Sunday that new regulations limiting the number of people allowed into mosques would be announced in an attempt to avoid shutting down mosques altogether.
