Highlights
- COVID-19 cases across the occupied Palestinian territory in September rose by 40%, and by 84% in the Gaza Strip
- WHO delivered COVID-19 lab testing kits, supplies and reagents to the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the past week to address the shortage of testing kits
- The UK Government has reprogrammed WHO funding to support the critical scale up of laboratory testing in the Gaza Strip, through the COVID-19 Inter-Agency Response plan