Likud MK announces that he will go into solitary confinement after meeting in his office with a verified corona patient • Dichter: "I have no symptoms at the moment, this morning I swam 2 km at sea"

• MK Avi Dichter // Photo: Yehoshua Yosef

The former Knesset member and former GSS chief announced today (Friday) that he will go into isolation after meeting with a verified corona patient in his office in the Knesset. 

In a post on the social network Facebook, Dichter wrote that: "In light of a message I have just received from the Ministry of Health, I am entering solitary confinement after it turned out that last Monday, July 27, I was in a meeting in the Knesset with a verified corona patient."

I have no symptoms at the moment, this morning I swam 2 km in the sea. But I went into isolation until Monday (10/8/20) as directed by the Ministry of Health. Shabbat Shalom and Blessed and please keep and keep, "added MK Dichter. 

Instructions from the Ministry of Health to prevent the spread of the corona virus in Israel // Courtesy of the Ministry of Health

The Ministry of Health announced yesterday that it is examining the possibility of further shortening the duration of the required isolation of Corona patients. If the move is implemented, the duration of isolation for patients with or without symptoms is expected to be shortened by a day to three days, so that a patient without symptoms can be defined as recovering even within seven to eight days, and not within ten days. Receiving a positive result (as currently defined) but from the date of taking the test.

The HMOs contacted the outgoing head of public health services, Prof. Sigal Sadecki, and offered to shorten her sick days, in part because the person being examined was in isolation from the moment the sample was taken. Also, the positive result he gets, even if late, relates to the moment of the test itself. According to the recovery procedure that came into effect about a week ago, the recovery time will be shortened to a minimum of 10 days.