The main laboratory for Covid-19 tests in Gaza City was damaged due to intensive Israeli airstrikes waged on the Gaza Strip, Xinhua news agency quoted a Palestinian health official as saying on Tuesday.

Yousef Abu al-Reesh, director of the Hamas-controlled health authority in Gaza, told reporters a health compound, including the testing laboratory, the health authority's offices and an outpatient clinic, was severely damaged after Israeli airstrikes completely destroyed several buildings near the compound...