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Three Omicron infections have been detected in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry said Thursday – the first cases of the new Covid-19 variant to have been recorded in the Palestinian territories. The three infected Palestinian citizens, from the West Bank cities of Ramallah, Hebron, and Toubas, had recently returned from abroad, health ministry spokesperson Dr. Kamal al-Shakhra told press. “The three cases underwent the necessary tests in Palestinian laboratories and were found to be infected with the Omicron variant,” Al-Shakhra said. “Our preventive medicine teams are cu…