Ahead of the impending closure, a special press conference is being held at this time with the participation of the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health • This morning, a record number of patients hospitalized in critical condition was recorded
State on the verge of closure:
At this time, a special press conference is being held with the participation of Prof. Itamar Grotto, Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health.
Moshe Ben Simhon
As decided yesterday at the cabinet meeting, the closure will begin this coming Friday, New Year's Eve at 14:00 in an attempt to prevent the outbreak of the corona virus.
And will last about three weeks, until after Simchat Torah, but it will be possible to extend it at the end of this period - subject to the decision of the Corona Committee and the Government.
As part of the "holiday closure", traffic will be restricted to up to 500 meters from the place of residence, apart from individual sports activities that will not be restricted.
The education system itself will move to distance learning and will operate until Friday (excluding).
Malls, shops that do not provide essential groceries, hotels and in fact the entire tourism industry will be closed.
However, Ben Gurion Airport will not be closed.
As part of the restrictions, all businesses will be completely closed - recipients of the public, trade, culture, entertainment, leisure and domestic tourism.
Essential services, pharmacies, grocery stores, opticians or stores that mainly sell hygiene products, stores for the sale of medical accessories and stores for products and communication services will be excluded from the closure.
The restaurants will be able to work in the form of deliveries and collection only.
Public sector jobs will be required to reduce their attendance to 30% -50% and subject to exceptional cases to be determined to prevent injury to vital activity.
Jobs that have an audience reception will not open.
All other workplaces will operate as usual.
Meanwhile, according to an update from the Ministry of Health published this morning, 3,167 infections were diagnosed in Corona yesterday in 34,749 tests.
The percentage of positive tests is 9.4 percent, and a total of 40,347 active patients as of the date of publication of the data.
At the same time, a record was broken in the number of patients hospitalized in critical condition in hospitals and their number stands at 519, of whom 144 are respirators.
