The number of coronavirus cases in Palestine has reached 673 after six new cases were recorded in the last 24 hours, said the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai Alkaila, today.

She explained that two cases were recorded in the town of al-Samou in the south of the West Bank of a 3 and 5-year-old children of a woman who tested positive for the disease the day before. The other four cases were in occupied East Jerusalem.

Alkaila said 570 coronavirus patients have recovered, which leaves the number of active cases in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip at 98. Five patients have died of the virus, including two in the West Bank, two in East Jerusalem and one in the Gaza Strip.