An-Najah News - Two new deaths and 463 new cases were recorded in the West Bank in the last 24 hours, raising the overall total in Palestine to 8616, today said the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

The ministry said in the daily press update for Covid-19 in Palestine, that an 83-year-old woman and a 76-year-old man from the city of Hebron in the south of the West Bank have died of the coronavirus disease raising the total number in Palestine since March to 49 victims.

The Ministry said 17 patients remain hospitalized in serious condition and six of them are on respirators.

It said active cases in Palestine stood at 7080, as 1487 have recovered from the virus.

East Jerusalem had 115 new cases in the last 24 hours, out of 147 for the whole district, Ramallah city had 15 cases out of 44 for the whole governorate, Hebron city had 40 cases out of 182 for the whole governorate, the current epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic, and Bethlehem district 51 cases. The rest are divided among other West Bank areas.

According to the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate two members of the Palestinian community in the United States and Algeria have died of the coronavirus disease.

With these two death the total deaths of diaspora Palestinians who succumbed to the pandemic to rais to 181, 

New cases among diaspora Palestinians that raises the  total of cases recorded so far has reaching 3537, among them 1943 in the US, while 1523 have recovered.