An-Najah News - Today, Sunday, The number of coronavirus cases around the world peaked to 1 million and 898 thousand cases in one day, according to Jones Hopkins university. 

This is considered a decrese in the nuber of cases after recording more than 100 thousand cases in the previous day.

The university also declared that the number of deaths reached 202880 with more than 817 recovery since the start of the outbreak of the pandemic. 

The number of cases in the United States reached 939,000. After that comes Spain with 223,7 thousnad cases, Italy with 195,3 thousand cases, France with 161,6 thousand cases and Germany with 156,5 thousand cases.  

An-Najah News - Nablus - Dr. Rani Al-Helou, a member of the Emergency Committee for the Palestinian community in Russia, confirmed that there are 10 infections among the Palestinian community, and their condition is reassuring and stable, and some are recovering, and they are a small percentage of the Palestinian community, which is estimated at 10,000 people, including 1,000 students in Russia.

On the contribution of the Palestinians to fighting the virus in Russia, he pointed out that approximately 80,000 cases have been registered so far in Russia, and every day there are approximately 5,000 new cases, and the Russian authorities are making a huge effort, adding: “We, as a community in Russia, are part of society.”

“In Moscow there is a Palestinian doctor that announced that he will give free treatment during the crisis, and there are efforts from the Palestinian embassy, ​​where emergency committees were established in all Russian cities,” he said in an interview with an-Najah News.

Concerning the role of the emergency committee, he stressed that the embassy worked to establish this committee because of the home-quarantine and the difficulty of leaving the houses and reaching the embassy, ​​and it was agreed on the work of the emergency committee and providing assistance to the children of the Palestinian community.