The Israeli government on Monday approved a series of measures aimed at containing the spread of COVID-19, following a heated emergency session of the “coronavirus Cabinet,” the Knesset committee tasked with overseeing the country’s response to the pandemic.
Israel is currently experiencing a “second wave” of coronavirus infections, with the total number of confirmed cases exceeding 30,000 on Monday, according to Health Ministry data.
Among the measures approved were the closure until further notice of all event halls, bars (including those in hotels), clubs, gyms and public pools; the cancellation of summer camps for kids in fifth grade and above; and limiting shuls and other houses of worship to a maximum of 19 congregants. Only 20 passengers at a time will be allowed on buses, whose windows will remain open and air-conditioning kept off, and gatherings will be limited to 20 people, who will be required to wear masks and adhere to social distancing directives. Thirty percent of public-sector employees will be ordered to work from home.
At the start of the meeting, held after late-night debates on the extent of the regulations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that immediate action was required to keep the country’s health system from being overrun.
“The pandemic is spreading; it’s plain as day that the numbers are rising sharply,” he said.
“Today there are about 90 patients in serious condition, and that number is doubling every four days. If we do not act now, we will be faced with hundreds, and perhaps more than 1,000, additional patients in serious condition during the coming weeks—something that will paralyze our [health and economic] systems. We thus need to take immediate steps to prevent the need for much more extreme measures later,” he added.
Netanyahu had warned on Sunday that urgent measures would be required to combat what he called a “very strong” resurgence of COVID-19 that will see “an increase and a doubling of the number of severe cases.”
As of Monday afternoon, the Health Ministry reported a total death toll since the start of the pandemic of 332, with 11,856 active cases and 32 people on ventilators.
Israel began lifting COVID-19-related restrictions in early May, but there was a resurgence of the infectious disease when schools and businesses reopened following two months of national lockdown.
(JNS)
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why not say we are returning to the 19 in Shul rule
Why does the government continue to deny the truth, that there is a cure for the Covid if taken during the first five days of contracting the disease? It’s called Hydroxychloroquine with zinc and often a specific antibiotic. It is being
administered all over the world with nearly 100% success. The drug opens a channel on the cell wall to let the zinc
enter and kill the virus. The antibiotic is to prevent infection as a side effect of the corona, not always used.
See interview with Rudy Guilliani.
So many cases can be stopped in their tracks. So many lives and suffering can be saved.
If it was COVID-25 would the maximum be 25? It looks arbitrary.
Remdesivir, approved by Fauci, has efficacy to simply shorten a hospital stay from 15 to 10 days and costs $2-3,000 a treatment.
HQC as explained above, a drug on the market for over 65 years, used continuously for various diseases by thousands of people, cures the disease within 1-2 days and costs $20 a treatment.
Follow the money….
Coronavirus is a very smart virus. It can instantly detect if there are more than 19 people in shul and report them.
Why would air-conditioning be kept off in buses? Does Israel want to kill all passengers chocking in their deadly masks?
90 patient in serious condition throughout Israel, a country of almost 9,000,000 people. And 332 people died since the start of the plannedemic – 6 months. Something to be alarmed about?
Mosdos in Israel who take money from the govt adhere fully to their nonsensical restrictions. On the other hand, yeshivos and mosdos who do not take money from the govt never closed because they know that it’s all shtus and political. B”H nobody got sick with fever, known as corona these days, and other sickness, and Torah megina umatzlo, Torah protects and saves.