WHO COVID-19 Situation Report for Occupied Palestinian Territory - Period 5 March - 1 October 2020

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Publication language
English
Pages
9pp
Date published
01 Oct 2020
Type
Research, reports and studies
Keywords
Data, COVID-19, Epidemics & pandemics, Health
Countries
Occupied Palestinian Territory

Highlights

  • COVID-19 cases across the occupied Palestinian territory in September rose by 40%, and by 84% in the Gaza Strip
  • WHO delivered COVID-19 lab testing kits, supplies and reagents to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the past week to address the shortage of testing kits
  • The UK Government has reprogrammed WHO funding to support the critical scale up of laboratory testing in the Gaza Strip, through the COVID-19 Inter-Agency Response plan