Israel decrees total lockdown to stop second wave



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HEIsraelis may not leave more than 500 meters from home, non-essential shops will remain closed and no more than ten people may join, among other restrictions within the framework of the lockdown.

The country’s health authorities had warned that there would be a new lockdown if they exceeded 2,000 positive daily cases, which did not happen, but in the last week they have already risen to 4,000, with hospitals in a state of saturation and increasing serious cases.

HE lockdown will last until 09 October and they coincide with three very important religious celebrations for Jews: Rosh Hashanah (Jewish New Year), Yom Cyprus (Day of Atonement) and the Sukkot (the Tabernacles).

During this period, the inhabitants will not be able to go further than 500 meters from the residence. except for Activities Individual sports facilities, schools, hotels and shopping centers will be closed.

There will be a limit of ten people in meetings in closed spaces and 20 outdoors, supermarkets and pharmacies will be able to operate, but the rest of the trade will only be for home deliveries.

HE sector the public will keep their workers to a minimum, and sector Private can continue to function normally, but will not be allowed to receive clients.

“These measures are very costly for all of us,” said the Israeli prime minister. Benjamin Netanyahu, after announcing the lockdown and the rules imposed.

“But only if we follow the rules, and I trust that we will, we will defeat the virus,” he added, before boarding the plane that will take him to Washington, in the United States, to sign the 15 September, at the White House, diplomatic ties with the Emirates Arabs United and the Bahrain.

The decision to apply a new lockdown It was reached after a meeting of government ministers, which lasted more than seven hours and that, according to local media, provoked shouts and cross accusations, it was also marked by the resignation of the Minister of Construction and Housing, the ultra-orthodox Yaakov Litzman, in addition to several ministers who warned about the damage that the lockdown it will cause the economy.

A pandemic of COVID-19-19 has already caused at least 921,097 deaths and more than 28.8 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report prepared by the French agency AFP.

In Portugal, 1,867 people died out of 63,983 cases of infection confirmed, according to the most recent Address-General health.

The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected not end of December, in Wuhan, a city in central China.

After Europe succeeded China as the center of pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.

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