RAMALLAH, Five people have died of coronavirus in Palestine in the last 24 hours and 337 new cases were recorded, today said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila.

She said that four of the deaths and 217 of the new cases were recorded in the Gaza Strip where also 654 patients have recovered, while one person died in the West Bank where 120 new cases and 131 recoveries were recorded.

Alkaila said 96 corona patients are currently getting treatment in hospitals and 61 are in intensive care, while 11 are attached to ventilators.

She said that over 100,000 people have received the third (booster) coronavirus shot while over 1.3 million people have received two doses of the vaccine with almost one million of them in the West Bank and the rest in the Gaza Strip.

Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency