APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Deir al-Balah - 04 May 2021. Palestinian chefs cook chickens and rice on firewood by burying them inside a barrel underground, to sell it to customers during the holy month of Ramadan in Deir al-Balah in the center of Gaza Strip, amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
01.SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdul Qadir Kurd
STORYLINE
Gaza is currently facing a worrying increase in the number of people with COVID-19, warned Doctors Without Borders in a statement.
Between March and April, COVID-19 infections have risen at an extraordinary rate, from less than a thousand reported cases a week to over a thousand reported each day, with an alarming increase in infections among healthcare workers. This second wave has already surpassed the first in its severity and in the number of infected patients, and hospitals are struggling to cope, it said.
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