GAZA (REUTERS) - Gaza reported its first cases of Covid-19 in the general population on Monday (Aug 24), as authorities confirmed four infections at a refugee camp and security forces declared a full lockdown for 48 hours.. Read more at straitstimes.com.
GAZA - Gaza reported its first cases of Covid-19 in the general population on Monday , as authorities confirmed four infections at a refugee camp and security forces declared a full lockdown for 48 hours.
"A full curfew will be imposed starting tonight and in all of the Gaza Strip," said Salama Marouf, chairman of the government's media office."It will include official, private and educational facilities as well as closing mosques, markets, wedding halls and sport clubs." Ahead of the announcement Gaza's security forces began to seal off entrances to cities across Gaza, according to a drill rehearsed in July.Until Monday the 360 sq km coastal strip, home to 2 million Palestinians, had reported no infections outside quarantine centres.People arriving in Gaza had to spend 21 days in the centres on orders from Hamas, the armed Islamist group that has controlled Gaza for over a decade.
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