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Palestinians prepare sweet known in Arabic as "Halkoum" to be sold ahead of the Eid al-Fitr holiday, at a factory in Gaza city on May 14, 2020. Photo by Mahmoud Ajjour

It’s the week before the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, and the streets of Palestine were bustling today as people got their holiday shopping done. But in the past 24 hours, 481 new cases of the virus were recorded in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and East Jerusalem.

Palestinian health workers move the body of a woman who has died after COVID-19 in the West Bank city of Nablus, July 5, 2020. (Photo: Nablus Governorate Office/APA Images)

This week the Palestinian Authority ordered nighttime and weekend curfews across the West Bank to slow the spread of the second wave of the coronavirus that is proving far more extensive and fatal that the first outbreak that began in March.