An-Najah News - Ramallah - The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates announced that the number of cases of coronavirus among the people of the Palestinian community in the United States of America during the past 48 hours has increased to 15 cases, and the sources reported that two new deaths were recorded among the community members.

In a statement published on its official Facebook page, the Ministry indicated that the specialized team in the United States Department of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates is following the conditions of our community and students.

“One of the citizens contacted the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates in which he appealed for the provision of medicine for his grandfather in the United States of America specifically in the state of Arizona. The Ministry contacted persons with relevance in America and the grandfather was assisted and the drug was provided to him by a Palestinian doctor.”

The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Belgium reported that the number of infections among our community increased to 48 since the beginning of the crisis, and a 37-day-old girl was found to be in good health and is in hospital with her infected mother, stressing that all cases of infection are stable and are in home quarantine. With the exception of 3 cases in hospitals and their conditions are stable.

The embassy communicates with the members of our community and students throughout the Belgian cities and provides their services to them around the clock, provided the necessary medicine and supplies for two cases put in quarantine, and provided financial assistance to 14 Palestinians there, according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The Ministry clarified that the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Riyad Al-Maliki, had calls with the ambassadors of the Arab Republic of Egypt, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, the Kingdom of Morocco, the Tunisian Republic, and the Sultanate of Oman to the State of Palestine, to check on the conditions of their crews and the Palestinian community there in light of the coronavirus pandemic.

Al-Maliki thanked these countries for sponsoring embassies, communities and students from Palestine in these circumstances and for providing assistance to them. And he praised the role that Arab governments play in protecting their people through the measures they have taken.

The specialized team in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in cooperation with the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of the Interior, has issued 3 certificates of no criminal records for students to extend their residency in the countries in which they reside. Also, in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Interior, 4 passports have been received for Palestinians who hold German citizenship and upon their request from the German embassy to evacuate them from Germany, and they also helped a female student in Britain to obtain a Palestinian passport, instead of a damaged one, to enable her to move and travel when the state of emergency ends.

Our embassy in Finland and the Baltic countries indicated that no infections were recorded among the Palestinian community and students there.