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Palestinian Authority reimposes lockdowns amid lack of vaccines

A year after the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in the Palestinian territories, the government reimposed total lockdown measures in several governorates in the West Bank amid the unprecedented rise in cases and deaths and the drained health care sector.

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This aerial view shows the Church of Nativity and the surrounding area, almost deserted during a lockdown imposed by the Palestinian authorities to slow the spread of the coronavirus, in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, on March 10, 2021. — HAZEM BADER/AFP via Getty Images

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