An-Najah News - Eleven new coronavirus cases were confirmed  Saturday in the West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem, raising the total in Palestine to 495, said Minister of Health Mai Alkaila.

She told the daily briefing on the corona pandemic in Ramallah that nine of the cases were registered in Shuafat refugee camp in occupied East Jerusalem. She said the other two cases were for a family of a male nurse who contracted the disease during his work at the Augusta Victoria Hospital in Jerusalem.

Alkaila said two recoveries were confirmed, bringing up the total cases to 105. In the meantime, one relapse case was registered raising the total cases of relapse to 18, at a nationwide average of 3% compared with a global average of 14%.