The mounting number of coronavirus infections in densely-populated Gaza is spinning out of control, Palestinian health officials warned on Monday, according to AFP.

“The virus is spreading and the situation is getting out of control,” Dr. Ahmad al-Jadba, an official at Shifa hospital in Gaza City, told AFP.

The health ministry in the Hamas-ruled territory of two million inhabitants declared a record 24-hour high of 890 new cases between Friday and Saturday.

The cumulative number of confirmed cases since the start of the pandemic stood Monday at 15,450, including 70 deaths.

“The number of intensive care beds is very limited, as are medicines,” said Mahmud Al-Khazindar, director of a private hospital in Gaza.

“If the number of cases increases, a choice will have to be made between the care of the elderly, the young and patients with another disease,” he warned.