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Gaza lockdown takes hold amid 1st virus cases in community

by Associated Press
| August 25, 2020 5:03 AM

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A 48-hour curfew took hold Tuesday in the Gaza Strip for the first time since the start of the global pandemic, a day after the first cases of community transmission of the coronavirus were detected.

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