Yesterday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas issued a decree extending the state of emergency for the fifth consecutive month to counter the outbreak of the new Corona Virus (Covid-19), while the Palestinian Ministry of Health warned that the epidemiological situation in Hebron Governorate will not be under control.
The Palestinian News Agency, Wafa, reported that Abbas’s decree included an extension of the state of emergency for 30 days, starting from yesterday, and that the relevant authorities continue to take all necessary measures to confront the risks resulting from the virus.
The Palestinian Minister of Health, May Alkila, warned that the epidemic situation of the Corona virus in the city of Hebron will be out of control if the people of the city do not cooperate.
"Wafa" quoted the minister as saying that "within Hebron governorate alone, there were 412 injuries recorded in 24 hours, most of them in the city, with 2749 active injuries in that governorate alone."
She added, "If the citizens of Hebron do not cooperate with the Ministry of Health crews, the epidemiological situation will get out of control." And that the Ministry will submit a recommendation to extend the closure imposed in the city, because the epidemiological situation requires it. The representative called on all citizens to abide by the preventive measures.
This comes as the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the registration of three new deaths from the new Corona virus in the West Bank, including a seventy-year-old woman who died from Al-Fawar camp in the Hebron governorate, and was suffering from chronic diseases, while the other two were men, one seventy and forty-two in the Hebron governorate, as announced 208 others were infected with the virus in various governorates, raising the death toll in Palestine to 20, and the death toll to 4458 cases.
The Palestinian Territories recorded the highest daily death toll, from yesterday, reaching 561 cases in West Bank cities and Jerusalem villages.
And it has been going on for two days since a government decision to close all West Bank governorates for five days and prevent movement between them, as a precautionary measure to prevent the increase in HIV infections, while the government announced that it had approved penalties for violators of the measures taken.
A ministerial delegation made up of five Palestinian ministers, who were Minister of Health Mai Al-Kaila, Minister of Economy Khaled Al-Osaili, Minister of Local Government Majdi Al-Saleh, and Minister of Justice Muhammad Al-Shalaldeh, Minister of Communications and Information Technology Yitzhak Sidr, held a series of meetings in the Hebron Governorate, to follow up on the health status therein, and to present A comprehensive report to the cabinet today.
The Minister of Local Government met, at the headquarters of the Hebron Municipality, a number of mayors (Hebron, Dura, Yatta, Halhul and Al-Dhahirah), to see their urgent needs in light of the Corona pandemic. The meeting stressed the necessity of continuing to provide different services to citizens, and the sustainability of the work of projects on the ground, from streets and infrastructure in all cities.
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Muhammad Shtayyeh, confirmed the day before yesterday that the government attaches great importance to the Hebron Governorate, which has the highest incidence of coronavirus infection, and to maintaining a stable health status there.
Shtayyeh added that the cabinet will discuss the recommendations of the ministerial committee, and will study all proposals to raise the capacity of the health sector in the province to enable it to control the epidemic.
He pointed out that the increase in the registered injuries in Hebron is worrisome, and requires cooperation and complementarity in the efforts between all official and popular parties. He called for more commitment to health measures that would enable crews to control the epidemic and reduce its spread.
The Palestinian police closed 177 shops, detained 52 vehicles, and withdrew 74 driving licenses in the governorates of Tulkarm, Salfit, Nablus, Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Hebron, and Jenin, because their owners did not comply with the instructions issued by the government on the closure imposed on the West Bank governorates, to prevent the spread of the epidemic.
3 new deaths from the virus in the Palestinian Territories ... and the total infections rose to 4458 cases.