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Gazans with COVID-19 symptoms refuse testing

Some people in the Gaza Strip are hiding their COVID-19 symptoms and avoiding testing in order to keep their jobs.
Gaza testing clinic

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — Some people with COVID-19 symptoms are avoiding testing to protect their income.

Suheir, who works in the Jabalia refugee camp in the north of the Gaza Strip, started coming down with COVID-19 symptoms in early April. But her colleagues encouraged her to come to work and hide her condition from management so that the kindergarten, their only source of income, would not shut down.

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