UAE Delivers 1M COVID-19 Vaccines to Gaza

The United Arab Emirates on Wednesday delivered 1 million Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine doses to the Gaza Strip, a Gaza Health Ministry official said. “It is the largest shipment of vaccine doses shipped to the Gaza Strip and will help combat the current wave of COVID-19 that has significantly increased in the last couple of days,” Gaza Health Ministry official Mahmoud Hammad told reporters at the Rafah crossing point between the Gaza Strip and Egypt. The Palestinian Authority Health Ministry reported 7,750 new cases in the Palestinian territories on Wednesday. This was the highest number of daily infections since the first case was recorded in March 2020. In the same 24-hour period, 905 recoveries and two deaths were recorded in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. There have been about half a million COVID-19 cases and more than 5,000 deaths in the Palestinian territories since the beginning of the pandemic, the ministry said.