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Palestininan government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem announced the second death from the novel coronavirus raising the death cases in to two.

He confirmed that Nashaat al-Mudallal, 55, a resident of Barta'a town near Jenin, died few  days after contracting coronavirus while working at his butcher shop in Barta'a after coming into contract with some Israelis.   

He was first admitted to Thabet Thabet Hospital in Tulkarem, and, as a result of the seriousness of his condition ,then  he was rushed to Hugo Chavez Hospital in the district town of Turmus Ayya,near Ramallah, where he died.

The first coronavirus fatality was of a woman, in her 60s, from Biddu town, northwest of Jerusalem. She contracted the virus from her son, who used to work in Israel.

Al-Mudalal was laid to his rest today afternoon in his hometown of Seida amidst tightened precautionary restrictions.

Earlier today government confirmed three new novel coronavirus cases, raising the total number of confirmed cases in the occupied territories to 266.

Speaking in the daily morning briefing, Government spokesman Ibrahim Milhem announced that a young woman, in her 20s, from Halhul city, north of Hebron, tested positive for the deadly virus. She contracted the virus after coming in contact with her infected parents.

He added that the other two cases are for a seven-year-old female child and her 25-year-old sister from Artas village, southwest of Bethlehem.

Later in the evening Melhem announced a new coronavirus case in the village of Bani naim near Hebron for a Palestinian worker in Israel, bringing the total to 267 cases in Palestine.