Faced with alarming daily numbers of new confirmed cases in a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Israeli Health Ministry decided on Tuesday to ask the Cabinet to issue orders to impose strict closures on dozens of cities and travel restrictions on members of many communities that are defined as “red” due to widespread infection.
These cities include Ashdod, which has seen a sharp rise in cases—from 134 to 417 in a one-week period; Nahariya, where the number has jumped from nine to 41 in a week; Beit Shean, which has seen an increase from eight cases to 39 in one week; Kafr Qassem, which has seen a 14.75 percent increase in case, from four to 58 in one week; and Bat Yam, Ramle, Lod, Jaljulia and Dimona.
In addition, Israel Hayom has learned that the authorities are considering a reinstatement of neighborhood closures and/or travel restrictions for certain areas of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, after dozens of new cases emerged among their residents.
Health Ministry Director General Professor Hezi Levi told Israel Hayom on Tuesday that the Health Ministry “is trying to avoid going back to a full shutdown and to make do with limited actions in areas with an unusual spread in coronavirus.”
Another senior Health Ministry official said, “If restrictions are not instated for ‘red’ communities … we might find ourselves in a very bad situation in which a decision will be made to restore a lockdown on the entire country, and possibly for a long time, with all the economic and social ramifications those steps would entail.”
The Health Ministry’s request for localized closures and travel restrictions are based, among other considerations, on a report by the Corona National Information and Knowledge Center, published on Tuesday, which included the recommendation: “If steps are not taken to slow the spread of infection … within two weeks the number of new cases per day could near 1,000 and the number of new [active] cases per day would rise to dozens, and the death rate will follow. At the same time, the number of hospitalized patients and patients in serious condition will increase, as will the number spending weeks in recovery.”
Meanwhile, Tuesday saw a record high in the number of new confirmed coronavirus cases in Israel, the Corona National Information and Knowledge Center reported on Wednesday.
The total number of new cases identified as of midnight between Tuesday and Wednesday stood at 773. A total of 18,824 corona tests were processed on Tuesday, the center reported.
A total of four percent of the tests were positive, on the high end for a 10-day period that saw daily positive percentages of between 2.5 and 4 percent.
June 2020 saw a total of 101 coronavirus patients listed in serious condition, compared to 38 in May.
This article first appeared in Israel Hayom.
(JNS)
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leave us alone you tyrants
what a ridiculous country
a little cabinet of hotheaded children decides everyone’s fate
we’d like to make our own decisions thank you
their are things called elections or did they not explain democracy in school?
New cases of fever to keep everyone inside to arrest the elite corona criminals who are running wild.
11:58am
Idiot, if Israel was able to capture Eichman in Argentina back in 1960, surely in 2020 they can catch some local criminals without having to lock down an entire country and destroy their economy.
“Kafr Qassem, which has seen a 14.75 percent increase in case, from four to 58 in one week”
No. You mean a 1,475% increase.
The masked-brained corona believers no doubt believe that once the lockdowns will end all coronavirus symptoms which includes: Fever or chills, Cough, Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, Fatigue, Muscle or body aches, Headache, New loss of taste or smell, Sore throat, Congestion or runny nose, Nausea or vomiting, Diarrhea will be gone for good and nobody will ever be sick with any of these symptoms again.
Of course! We will have Moshiach and that’s exactly what will happen. Of course I would not want in the place of someone who couldn’t be inconvenienced to wear a mask and to stay home and has made someone else sick. I really would not want to be in that position…..
how about rav chaim rav gershon and rav dov landau rav moshe shternbuch rav shmuel kaminetzky
Those who believe that covid-19 exists should allow governments to lockdown cities in order to destroy all the sickness in the world, I mean covid-19, once and for all. And those who believe that covid-19 is a cover-up for global mass arrests should also allow governments to lockdown cities in order to destroy all the corona criminals in the world.
Wow, so Matzav is covering up peoples comments. Censorship is in full force.