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Government approves: Bnei Brak has been declared a "restricted area" for entry and exit | Israel today

2020-04-02T19:51:34.262Z


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New emergency regulations approved after special session • Police will be given the authority to use reasonable force in case of non-compliance with the closure provisions • A district physician may order a person to move to a state isolation location • The IDF will contact 4,500 elderly residents of Bnei Brak for hotels • All details

The city of Bnei Brak was declared Thursday (Thursday) as a "restricted area" - this was decided at a government meeting. The significance of the decision is that the city can actually be closed. In addition, the government has decided to set up a prime ministerial committee to declare additional places in the country as a "restricted area" if a high concentration of Corona patients is discovered.

Photo: Moti Green

The government also decided that a district physician or chief medical officer of a health fund may order a person to move to a state-of-the-art isolation, in the event that the conditions of isolation in the residence cannot be met. The state will provide those in isolation rather than isolation on behalf of the state food and cleaning products. In addition, anyone returning from abroad or a person in solitary confinement who violated a doctor's order to stay in solitary confinement on the part of the state - committing an offense in the garden may be fined NIS 5,000 for an administrative fine. The decision was made after numerous reports by the police that civilians refuse to comply with the isolation guidelines and there is no legal way to enforce the directive.

The orders say that once the area is declared infected, a permanent resident should not leave except in the following cases: medical treatment that cannot be obtained in the same area, a legal process that he must report to, a soldier police officer or a medical staff member who is on duty, a funeral of a relative First degree, transferring a minor from parent to parent in custody or other essential need with individual approval, according to a procedure to be made public.

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The rest of the citizens will not be allowed to enter the restricted area, except in the following cases: the rescue body, the Israeli police, the IDF and the GA, a permanent resident of the area, the entry of medical workers, social workers, welfare workers and journalists. Except for these, entry into the city will be permitted only for the supply of products, for the purpose of transferring a minor in custody or for any other essential purpose in the illustration of the National Emergency Authority (Rahal).

In addition, the police will be given special authority to use reasonable force in the event of a refusal to comply with the closure provisions. The only way to appeal the closure provisions would be through an administrative petition.

Estimated: 75,000 patients in the city

Meanwhile, at the Corona Commission hearing, Maccabi hospital fund CEO Professor Ran Sa'ar estimated that 38 percent of Bnei Brak residents had contracted the virus - about 75,000 people.

"Maccabi handles half of the residents of Bnei Brak, and according to various indications, about 38% of the city's population is sick, which is 75,000 people. I read a map of all the authorities responsible for placing police there for Passover. Otherwise, the situation there will worsen. Bnei Brak is a city with a high percentage Of an older population. If we do not prepare properly, we will find ourselves with a lot of dead in the city, "Prof. Sa'ar said at the hearing.

Source: israelhayom

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