Within a week, there were only 100 ventilators in Gaza's hospitals.

Already 79 of them have been taken up by covert patients.

Microbiologist Abdel Raouf al Manama says the Health Ministry is experiencing an unprecedented situation due to the rising number of cases, and he warns the beds in the intensive care units are running out.

Gaza has a dense and poor population of around two million people.

It is registered 14,000 infections and 65 deaths, mostly since August.

Gaza's Islamist Hamas rulers have so far imposed one lock down.

A long standing Israeli blockade, which is supported by neighboring Egypt, has crippled the garden economy and undermined his public health apparatus.