Gaza Strip goes into lockdown as it starts battling its 1st Covid-19 outbreak

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Health authorities in the Palestinian territory have imposed a lockdown after four people tested positive for Covid-19 at a refugee camp. Shops, mosques and schools were ordered to close in a bid to contain the transmission.

The four coronavirus cases were confirmed within a single family in a refugee camp, government spokesman Salamah Maarouf said on Tuesday. The local outbreak is the first in the coastal enclave not to involve any of the 110 people already quarantined in border facilities after crossing into Gaza from Egypt and Israel.

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