An-Najah News - A Palestinian health official today warned that the Covid-19 infections curve in Ramallah governorate continues to bend upward said head of the Ramallah and al-Bireh Health Directorate Mutasim Muheisin.

He added that due to the lack of compliance with precautionary and public safety measures among people, the infections spread continues to show an upward trend.

“If the epidemic curve continues to show this upward trend, a recommendation will be submitted to the Health Minister ]Mai al-Kaileh[ on tightening the measures designed to curb the spread of the coronavirus,” he added, while pointing that such measures would be tightened in line with relevant standards related to the number of deaths and infections.

This came as the Tulkarm, Nablus, Bethlehem, and Hebron governorates, have been under a weeklong lockdown after they were assigned the red color, indicating a high infection rate.