“We’ve recommended that the government institute a two-week lockdown,” al-Kaila said. The Gaza Strip, by contrast, has improved dramatically in recent days. While the coastal enclave was seeing hundreds of daily cases in December and January, it only recorded 84 new cases over the past 24 hours. The Strip has hesitantly begun to return to normal life, with schools and popular markets reopening. Palestinian health workers at a hospital in the West Bank town of Nablus, where health workers were vaccinated against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) earlier today, after the delivery of vaccine doses from Israel. February 3, 2021. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90) As the number of West Bank cases has crept up, however, the number of tests coming back positive has also risen from 10 percent to 20-30%, al-Kaila told al-Arabiya. The high positivity rate indicates that the virus could be spreading even more widely, undetected.