New and alarming phenomenon of US youth coming to Israel - reporting no contact with Corona patients or symptoms • "Infection rate in the US is very high"

• Jewish community in Brooklyn, New York. "Very high adhesion rate" // Photo: IP

Coronary Plague: An alarming phenomenon that has occurred in recent days is US Jewish youth who arrive on flights to Israel but do not report contact with verified corona patients or symptoms that may indicate the carriers of the virus.

According to information that arrived in Israel today, a young man who tried to board an El Al flight tonight was refused - after apparently not reporting that he had been in Corona patient for a long time and suffering from worrisome symptoms. That young man was staying in a community where the infection rate was very high. Authorities received a report of the same passenger, who was arrested a moment before boarding the plane, and at the last moment his flight to Israel was prevented.

Corona in New York // Photo: Reuters

This case joins a flight that landed from New York last Thursday during which 80 Jews arrived in New York. All came from an area where the infection rate was very high, and signed forms that were not in the vicinity of verified patients or had symptoms.

The young people were transferred directly from the field to the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, nicknamed the Corona Hotel, for someone in solitary confinement.

People close to the community tell Israel Today that quite a few Jews who want to come to Israel, especially young people, have felt bad in recent times and have refused to conduct tests on Corona.

Many of them say that some even intentionally lower heat before the flight so as not to prevent them from boarding, as happened tonight with a young Jew who wanted to come to Israel.

"There is a very alarming rate of infection - in New York, Crown Heights and the whole area where many Jews live. Many of them are not feeling well lately. What is happening is very dangerous there," a community member living in the area told Israel Today.

This information explains why it was decided to put all dozens of landers from that New York flight in isolation at the Dan Hotel, even though none came as a verified patient, or reported close contact with a verified patient or symptoms. Israeli authorities have speculated that although they signed forms, and even though false reporting constitutes a violation of American and Israeli laws, some may still be ill.

It is important to note that US law requires those who suffer from symptoms, or who have been in close contact with a verified patient, to stay in home isolation and of course do not allow to get to the airport and fly. Airlines cannot enforce such cases on their own without the permission of the authorities.

The Ministry of Health has not yet responded to the case.