PLO is not faring well with Corona effects
The Palestinian Authority will enact a partial lockdown in the West Bank for the next 12 days after cases more than doubled over the past two weeks, PA Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh said Saturday.What if it turns out they haven't made much of an effort to vaccinate their public, if at all, apart from the higher echelons? Considering how antisemitic the PLO is, and how they continue to indoctrinate their subjects for the same, that's why it's hard to feel sorry they got struck by something like this. Last year, it was reported that a lot of the most serious cases were in Hebron.
The steps will include a closure of all educational institutions; a ban on travel between provinces; a ban on the entry of Arab Israelis; a ban on all parties, weddings and funerals; a nighttime curfew, with all vehicular travel prohibited; and a full lockdown on weekends.
[...] According to the PA Health Ministry, there are currently 12,015 active cases in the West Bank. Two weeks ago, there were only 5,971 West Bank cases, the Health Ministry reported.
Around 24 percent of coronavirus tests came back positive across the West Bank on Saturday. In some governorates, this has risen as high as 30% over the past few days.
[...] While Israel has surged ahead in vaccinating its population, potentially allowing it to avoid a fourth wave, Palestinians have yet to obtain a significant amount of vaccines, although some medical staff have been vaccinated.
Shtayyeh said the first major batch of vaccines to reach the Palestinians — part of a two-million-dose deal inked with the British pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca — would arrive in the first week of March.
“We’ve paid for $10 million in doses. We had expected them to arrive by the end of February, but there has been a delay associated with the manufacturing company, not with us,” Shtayyeh said.
See also this entry on Elder of Zion, which further explains how the PLO hasn't a plan nor a clue how to distribute and use the vaccines.
Update: and here's a report telling how the PLO's higher echelons are prioritizing the vaccines for themselves.
Labels: anti-semitism, islam, Israel, political corruption