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Your parliament Israel yesterday approved the extension of the restrictive measures applied in the country until January 21st and the imposition of new, after the increase of their cases SARS-CoV-2.
Despite the national emergency shutdown Imposed on December 27 for two weeks, the third since the outbreak of the new coronavirus, the number of infected has begun to rise again, with more than 7,000 cases every twenty-four hours in recent days.
According to a decision approved by the Knesset, the drafting committee of the Israeli parliament, the restrictive measures, which were originally planned to last until January 10, will run until at least January 21.
They are ready after all new measures in force from today Friday: Most of the schools that have remained open so far are closing their doors; while the number of employees authorized to go to work will be further reduced.
Additional travel and travel restrictions are still imposed. Only those who bought a plane ticket before January 7 will be able to leave Israel.
More police officers will be patrolling to verify compliance.
As of December 27, all stores whose operation is not considered absolutely necessary have been closed, while public gatherings of more than ten people have been prohibited. Israelis are not allowed to move more than 1,000 meters from their homes, except to go shopping for basic necessities and medicine, to see a doctor or to go to work, if they have permission to do so.
Israel, with a population of about nine million, has officially registered more than 466,000 cases SARS-CoV-2 and 3,527 deathdue to COVID-19.
At the same time, the Israeli authorities continue vaccination campaign which started on December 19. Two million people will have received the second dose of their vaccine by the end of January, authorities say.
About 100,000 doses of the product of the American biotechnology company Modern arrived in Israel yesterday Thursday.
In the evening, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced that it had signed an agreement with the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer to purchase a sufficient number of doses to vaccinate the entire Israeli population over 16 years of age at the end of March.
“We must all abide by the restrictive measures so that we can return to our (normal) life as soon as possible,” Netanyahu said, as quoted by the right-wing prime minister.
Israeli officials hope that the country will have overcome the pandemic as early as February if vaccination continues at the same rate.
The immunization campaign in Israel will make the country a “model,” says Netanyahu, who is calling for his re-election in the March 23 parliamentary elections, the country’s fourth recourse to the polls in two years.
To date, 17.5% of the population – and 70% of citizens over 60 years of age – have received the first dose of the vaccine developed by Pfizer in collaboration with the German biotechnology laboratory BioNTech.
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