There were 17 cases of coronavirus in the State of Palestine during the pandemic before April 22 , 2020 .
There are 17 cases as of 24 April 2020 , 11 of whom have recovered as of 20 April , 2020. On 12 January 2020 , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) confirmed that a novel coronavirus was the cause of a respiratory illness in a cluster of people in Wuhan City , Hubei Province , China , which was reported to the WHO on 31 December 2019 .