Ministry of Education has released up-to-date data on the spread of plague in educational institutions across the country • 216 patients were diagnosed in all those institutions • In Jerusalem 164 students and teaching staff were infected with the virus • Only 13 different educational institutions were closed today • Full data
The Hebrew Gymnasium in Jerusalem
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Oren Ben Hakun
According to the Ministry of Education, as of Tuesday, about 10,000 students and teaching staff in the entire education system have been sent to isolation in recent days as a result of the spread of corona virus in schools.
The full report
31 schools were closed in total. In total, there are 217 patients in all educational institutions, an increase of 11 patients compared to yesterday. The 13 schools closed today and the number of isolates increased from 6,212 to 9,935. In Jerusalem, "the focus of the outbreak in the education system," there are a total of 164 patients.
Likewise, in Holon, Mayor Moti Sasson, in coordination with the Ministry of Education, has instructed at this time to close Katzir High School and prepare for distance learning.
In the meantime, the Ministry of Education has looked back at learning in small groups in middle schools and high schools. According to Knesset Education Director Aryeh Moore, in the Knesset Education Committee: "Corona infection events are family events that feed on school infection. The decision is to conduct tests for all their students and teaching staff who come into contact with Corona patients - which has not existed so far."
Corona tests at Hadassah Hospital for high school students in Jerusalem // Photo: Hadassah spokesmen
This morning, the Katzir Gymnasium School reported the presence of a student, a second-confirmed corona patient at the school, who is attending the same class with the authenticated student. the first one. Importantly, the patient has been in solitary confinement since the publication of the information about the first validated corona patient at the school on May 30, 20.
In addition, Ma'aleh Adumim Municipality reported that the girls' EMS school turned out to be positive for Corona after apparently contracting the gymnasium, so the mayor and education holder, Bani Kashriel, issued an immediate instruction, in accordance with the Ministry of Health's instructions, to close the school and send all the students And the corona insulation and testing team.
In the South, earlier it was reported that 2,631 students and teaching staff from three different schools were placed in solitary confinement due to the presence of Corona patients in the territories of the same institutions. These are a comprehensive high school (1,930 students), a comprehensive third grade (190) and an oasis elementary school (511).
Beersheba Mayor Rubik Danilovich has been working on the city's education system for the past few hours. Danilowicz spoke with district administrators at the Health and Education ministries and is in regular contact with the administrators of parents' educational and leadership institutions to arrange the examinations and treatment of students and teaching and administration staff.
In addition, the mayor asked education and health ministers to arrange a uniform treatment procedure for both ministries, so that school administrators and parents throughout the country know how to handle verified patient cases, as they have faced in recent days in several communities in the country, for the betterment of student health, educational staff and their families. .
Danilovich, also, contacted the provincial administrators of the various health services (health funds), in order to have the tests done as quickly as possible.
Edelstein: "We won't easily close schools"
Health Minister Yuli (Joel) Edelstein met with CEOs of the four HMOs on Tuesday. Deputy Minister Yoav Kish and CEO Moshe Bar Seaman also attended the meeting. Edelstein said: "We will not easily close businesses or schools - we will have to live with interlocking tools, so we will expand the circle of tests including asymptomatic." The minister again introduced the new testing policy as presented at the press conference on Sunday. At the moment, the Ministry of Health has the capacity to carry out about 15,000 tests a day, and in about two months the capacity will increase to about 30,000.
Edelstein added: "Now you have the points. I very much ask that after the meeting you sharpen your procedures and that they will immediately seep into the area." The minister added that the condition for the closure of businesses and schools was that there would be no sharp surge in morbidity in Corona.
Participating in the preparation of the news: Noam (Dovol) Dvir, Yuri Yalon, Gadi Golan, Efrat Porcher, Meital Yasur-Beit Or