The four cases were from a single family in a camp in central Gaza, a government spokesman said, amid concern over Gaza’s potentially disastrous combination of poverty, densely populated refugee camps and limited hospital capacity
“A full curfew will be imposed starting tonight and in all of the Gaza Strip,” said Salama Marouf, chairman of the government’s media office. “It will include official, private and educational facilities as well as closing mosques, markets, wedding halls and sport clubs.”The statement continued: “We are now working to determine the causes of infection and the map of those who made contact with the infected cases.
Those centres had recorded one death and 109 infections. People arriving in Gaza had to spend 21 days in the centres on orders from Hamas, the armed Islamist group that has controlled Gaza for over a decade.
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