GAZA – A U.N. aid agency Tuesday began delivering food to the homes of impoverished Palestinians instead of making them pick up such parcels at crowded distribution centers — part of an attempt to prevent a mass outbreak of the new coronavirus in the densely populated Gaza Strip.
As the virus continued to spread across the Middle East, Iran, the hardest-hit country in the region, reported 141 new deaths, pushing the death toll closer to 3,000 people.
In Israel, defense officials said they had converted a missile-production plant into an assembly line for much-needed breathing machines.
Saudi Arabia, meanwhile, said it would pay medical expenses for anyone infected with the virus. In Gaza, the U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian