National quarantine in Israel for three weeks



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The Israeli government, after a mid-day debate, voted in favor of a second strict lockout that began on Friday afternoon and lasted at least three weeks, 12-night commercial television reported Sunday night.

The short circuit, instead of the two weeks agreed in the cabinet, It starts with a strict bribe for three weeks due to an increasingly serious epidemic. This period is the period of the autumn Jewish holidays, from the Jewish New Year which begins on Friday to the Simchat Torah holiday, which ends the tent holidays.

Housing Minister Jakov Licman, one of the leaders of the ultra-Orthodox Ashkenazi Ashkenazi party’s Jahadut HaTóra party from the Guri Hasidic Party, resigned on Sunday due to synagogue restrictions that also apply during the holidays.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men are praying in Jerusalem on September 10, 2020.Source: MTI / EPA / Abir Sultan

During the three-week period, everyone in the country will be able to leave their home just 500 meters away, all educational and leisure institutions will be closed, only grocery stores and pharmacies will be open.

The government’s decision made it easier to regulate work at the time of closure. Although all non-vital jobs would have been closed in the original version, at the government meeting on Sunday it was decided that they could continue working in the private sector.

Television experts criticized the government for not increasing the capacity of hospitals since the first wave of the epidemic in the spring, as well as they can only accommodate eight hundred critically ill patients, although in recent months health care has received an extraordinary budget of 15,000 million shekels (about 1,500,000 million florins) to increase the number of beds.

The ultra-Orthodox Jewish men will perform their morning prayer near their home in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv on September 7, 2020, rather than at the synagogue.Source: MTI / AP / Oded Balilty

It is also of concern that at the end of the short circuit, it is not certain that a contact test system will be put in place to preserve the breeze block result, the least expected number of new infections and slow the emergence of another wave.
The strict lockdown is only the first stage of emergency measures and depending on the results, new less extreme restrictions are expected to continue to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Israel.

Professor Roni Gamzu, Commissioner for Crown Affairs, announced his departure on November 1 after the introduction of a “stoplight plan” that would have differentiated, different rules for differently infected settlements.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu outlined the measures in a televised speech and promised to present a financial aid package on Thursday. for disadvantaged economic operators.

In Israel, around nine million 154,759 people have so far been confirmed to be infected with the coronavirus, and 38,008 active infections are recorded on the Ministry of Health website.

Since the SARS-CoV-2 virus disease, 1,108 people have died in Israel since February, and 1,056 coronavirus patients are currently being treated in hospitals across the country, 513 of which are in serious condition, 139 people with fans.



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