As the number of Palestinians infected in Lebanon increases to 5, "pro-Palestinian activists" remain silent

Wavel (Galilee) camp

I reported Wednesday on the story of the first Palestinian resident of an overcrowded camp in Lebanon being found to have COVID-19, and how the people who scream every time a Palestinian in Gaza is found to be infected - and blame Israel - are completely silent over a much worse potential danger to Palestinians' health in Lebanon.

If there are no Jews to blame, their sense of social justice evaporates.

The woman in the Wavel camp in Lebanon apparently infected the other people in her house:

Four residents of a Palestinian refugee camp in Lebanon tested positive for the novel coronavirus on Thursday, a health official said, bringing total cases in the settlement to five.

The residents of the Wavel camp in the eastern Bekaa Valley were tested after a member of their household, a Palestinian refugee from Syria, was admitted to the state-run Rafic Hariri hospital in Beirut earlier this week for demonstrating COVID-19 symptoms.

Contact tracing and initial investigation by the health ministry “of the refugee patient who tested positive with Covid19 in Baalbek yesterday reveals four members of her immediate household affected,” Firas Abiad, the hospital’s head, said in a post on Twitter.

Medical experts visited the Wavel camp on Wednesday to carry out tests, focusing on relatives of the first patient, people she has interacted with, as well as 50 others chosen arbitrarily inside the camp and its surroundings, according to Lebanon’s official National News Agency.

Apart from the 5 confirmed cases in the camp, all other tests have returned negative, said the head of the Rafic Hariri hospital.

There have been no reports of coronavirus cases in other Palestinian camps in the country.

In coordination with Lebanese security forces, Palestinian factions in charge of security have imposed a lockdown on the Wavel camp, preventing anyone from entering or leaving, the NNA report said.

Here's a video of a car going through the camp warning people to stay inside their houses.

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