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Gaza caught between full lockdown or collapse of health sector amid COVID-19 surge

A health catastrophe looms on the horizon of the Gaza Strip amid the already fragile health-care sector, while the government hesitates to impose a full lockdown due to the deteriorating economic situation.

A Palestinian man and his wife ride a donkey cart past street art showing doctors mask-clad due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic in the Nusseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on November 16, 2020. (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED / AFP) (Photo by MOHAMMED ABED/AFP via Getty Images)
A Palestinian man and his wife ride a donkey cart past street art showing doctors mask-clad due to the coronavirus pandemic in Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, Nov. 16, 2020. — Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

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