The Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip announced today, Monday, that 339 laboratory samples were examined in the last hours, and all its results were negative, without any injuries reported.
The ministry’s spokesman, Ashraf al-Qidra, said during a press conference that the ministry ended the quarantine of 205 hosts who arrived in Gaza on the thirteenth of this month after they completed 21 days in isolation, and conducted recent laboratory tests to check on their health.
He indicated that he is conducting laboratory tests for 362 other hosts who will complete the quarantine today and tomorrow.
Al-Qudra pointed out that the ministry is still providing treatment to 5 cases present in the isolation hospital who were infected with the virus, and to 3 other cases of those recovering at the quarantine center at the Rafah crossing.
He stated that the medical teams are following-up the 9 recovered cases that left the stone to their homes, indicating that they are in a reassuring condition and that there have been no health changes in their condition.
The spokesman for the health in Gaza stressed the strict measures to protect the sector and society, and the lack of complacency and disregard for the campaign of preventive measures, calling on citizens to adhere to them, to wear masks, to keep spacing, and not to leave homes except for the most urgent necessity.
He pointed out that the ministry suffers from a severe shortage in all its components, noting that the shortage of medicines reached 44%, medical consumables reached 29%, and laboratory supplies and blood banks where the shortfall reached 56%.
He said that what has reached the ministry in Gaza from the ministry in Ramallah since the beginning of the year represents 5% of the annual need of $ 47 million, which is enough to cover 18 days of work in health facilities.
And he demanded the ability, the international institutions and the concerned authorities to assume their full responsibilities in lifting the Israeli siege and accelerate the rescue of the health situation in the Gaza Strip and meet the urgent needs of medicines and medical consumables and sufficient quantities of laboratory examination materials, intensive care beds and ventilators.
