“We’ve recommended that the government institute a two-week lockdown,” al-Kaila said.
The Gaza Strip, by contrast, has improved dramatically in recent days. While the coastal enclave was seeing hundreds of daily cases in December and January, it only recorded 84 new cases over the past 24 hours. The Strip has hesitantly begun to return to normal life, with schools and popular markets reopening.
Palestinian health workers at a hospital in the West Bank town of Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) earlier today, after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel. February 3, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
As the number of West Bank cases has crept up, however, the number of tests coming back positive has also risen from 10 percent to 20-30%, al-Kaila told al-Arabiya. The high positivity rate indicates that the virus could be spreading even more widely, undetected.
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Abbas modifies Palestine elections law
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas holds a press conference on Trump s so called peace plan in Ramallah, West Bank on 28 January 2020 [Issam Rimawi / Anadolu Agency] January 13, 2021 at 10:54 am
Palestinian Authority (PA), PLO, and Fatah President Mahmoud Abbas has modified the election law, Palestinian Election Commission Executive Director Hisham Kahil revealed yesterday.
Speaking to the official
Palestinian Radio, Kahil said Abbas dropped the condition for the candidates to be committed to the PLO s political obligations and raised the quota for female representation from 20 per cent to 26 per cent.
Kahil said that Abbas is going to meet with the head of the Palestinian Election Commission on Friday in order to agree on the presidential decrees related to the elections, noting that all changes made to the law would be available to the public within 48 hours.
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