RAMALLAH, Nov. 30 (Xinhua) -- Palestine said on Monday that it plans to get about 2 million vaccines from the World Health Organization and the vaccine manufacturers to curb COVID-19 spread in the Palestinian territories.
The Palestinian government has started to approach the manufacturers for coronavirus vaccines, the government said in a press statement.
The statement said the government decided to keep the West Bank lockdown running from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. until the end of this week.
A full lockdown will be imposed all over the West Bank on Friday and Saturday, it added.
Meanwhile, Samer al-Asaad, a senior official of the Palestinian Ministry of Health, warned of more coronavirus spread because of the increasing number of daily cases.
"The number of daily COVID-19 cases has exceeded 2,000, while the recovery rate has decreased to 78 percent," al-Asaad said.
Earlier in the day, Palestinian Minister of Health Mai al-Kaila said the health ministry recorded 2,062 new COVID-19 cases and 15 more deaths in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem, bringing the total number to 98,850 and the death toll to 822. Enditem
