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According to the World Health Organization, September 13 was a world record number of new infections per day. The total number of new infections in the last 24 hours is recorded at 307,930 cases.
The countries with the largest increases in the number of new infections, respectively, are India, with 94,372 cases, the United States, 45,523 cases, and Brazil, 43,718 cases. Still, the number of new infections in the US has dropped by about 44% since the peak of the outbreak on July 16. The number of new cases in Brazil is also decreasing.
Both the United States and India had more than 1,000 more deaths, while Brazil had 874 deaths.
The previous WHO record for the number of new infections per day occurred on September 6, with 306,857 cases. The day with the highest number of deaths from COVID-19 so far was April 17.
Restaurants in some areas of New York are open to customers from outer space – Photo: REUTERS
The second time, Israel announced a national blockade
Regarding the COVID-19 outbreak, Israel will impose a second national lockdown to stop the spread of the new strain of the corona virus, starting on the eve of the Jewish New Year.
According to the BBCThe blocking order will begin next Friday, September 18 and will last for three weeks.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that this measure is necessary in the context that Israel has about 4,000 new infections a day in recent weeks.
According to the AFP news agency, Israel is currently the second country in the world, after Bahrain, in terms of the COVID-19 infection rate per population. So far, Israel has detected 153,759 cases of COVID-19, including 1,108 deaths, out of a total population of 9 million, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.
Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman opposes Israel’s second blockade for protecting the rights of Jews to participate in religious festivals – Photo: BBC
Following the announcement, Israeli Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman announced on September 13 that he would resign to oppose this strict restriction.
Litzman, who previously served as Minister of Health, said the blocking measures would ban people from going to Jewish temples during the festivals of Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur, a major festival of the Jewish year. Thai, which takes place on September 27.
According to him, this is unfair, regardless of the hundreds of thousands of Israelis and Jews in the mainstream. He also threatened his party with withdrawing from the ruling coalition.
The new blockade order in Israel will be applied as widely as ever since the last blockade, including: indoor gathering of no more than 10 people, outdoor gathering of no more than 20 people.
Schools and shopping centers will be closed, people will only be able to travel within 500 meters of their homes, except for work reasons. Non-state organizations, companies cannot contact customers.
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