A total of 393 Palestinians living abroad have succumbed to the novel coronavirus since the pandemic outbreak, reported the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates.

The Ministry said in a Monday statement that three Palestinians have just died of COVID-19.

Two women aged 68 and 77 died of the disease in Saudi Arabia, raising the death toll among Palestinians in the Arab Gulf country to 117.

Ukraine also confirmed its first death from COVID-​19 among the Palestinian community in the country.