The school closes on Sunday this week, and following the diagnosis, the Or Yehuda municipality decided to move two educational institutions close to distance learning.

• Corona outbreak in elementary school in Or Yehuda

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Sixteen students and two teachers from Or Hanna School in Or Yehuda were infected in Corona. The municipality of Or Yehuda said the results came as a result of their demand to conduct tests for all students and the school's educational staff, which closed on Sunday this week.

The municipality also said that "in light of the outbreak of the virus, Mayor Liat Shochat, in coordination with Tel Aviv District Manager Haya Shitai and the Supervisory Board, closed the nearby Orot Elementary School, for fear of expanding the outbreak of the virus, as well as the Or Menachem Elementary School , Where family members of students who were found to be verified are studying, all this Friday, June 26, then a new decision will be made on continuing education. Both of these elementary schools will start tomorrow for distance learning. "

The municipal statement also states that starting tomorrow, the Rabin residence will also be temporarily closed until the results of the two coroners' corona tests are received.

Required: Dozens of standards for public health nurses

Meanwhile, following the exposures in "Israel Today", the Ilana Cohen Sisters' Federation's chairman on Tuesday made an urgent request to the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, with the urgent need to allocate additional standards to public health nurses in the Ministry's health bureaus.

The nurses are the ones conducting the epidemiological investigations of the Corona patients, with the aim of locating anyone who is close to them or in contact with them to instruct them to enter the isolation - thereby reducing the spread of the epidemic.

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Cohen's appeal came against the backdrop of "Israel Today" advertising last Friday, about the severe shortage of nurses conducting epidemiological investigations, and following today's report that the Ministry of Health needs an additional 273 employees in its seven regional health bureaus. It is estimated that these bureaus will carry out at least another 6,500 investigations a month. This is in addition to 1,260 investigations that can carry out 27 public health nurses each month who believe in the epidemiological investigations in the health bureaus.

According to these figures, there is a severe shortage of manpower in this area, especially in the health bureaus that are responsible for the areas where the corona spreads most severely: Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Bnei Brak and the southern communities.

"With the outbreak of the Corona epidemic, epidemiological investigations are being carried out by public health nurses, without the need for additional personnel," Cohen wrote to Prof. Levi. "This situation is more of an unbearable burden on the shoulders of public health nurses, and does not allow them to carry out investigations on the required timelines to interrupt the infection network, which is a primary pillar of Israel's ability to cope with the corona epidemic and any outbreak of other contagious disease."

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Cohen emphasized that "the existing situation requires the immediate addition of dozens of public health nursing standards in order to allow and conduct proper investigations. Contacts exposed to corona patients. We will also seek immediate professional discussion to prepare with appropriate personnel to vaccinate the population against outbreaks of communicable diseases in coronary disease. "

Continuing with reports in "Israel Today", Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced today that his office will absorb 190 students from among 273 standards necessary to conduct the Corona patients' investigations, adding: "We are preparing for difficult scenarios in the hope that we will not achieve this."