An-Najah News - Gaza government spokesman said the four cases were uncovered after a woman travelled to the West Bank, where she tested positive. 

according to the minsitry Four members of her family then tested positive in Gaza, the first cases outside quarantined border facilities.

The family had been in contact with many other people in the Maghazi refugee camp in central Gaza.

Gaza health authorities later on Tuesday announced that two patients at Gaza City’s bustling Shifa Hospital were tested positive with the virus. the new cases are  unrelated to the initial four cases.

Businesses, schools and mosques were shuttered  and warnings to obey a 48-hour curfew.

It would work with the Gaza authorities to convert former border protest medical tents into COVID-19 triage facilities said Dr Ayadil Saparbekov, head of WHO’s local Health Emergencies Team