The outline that will be discussed is expected to include eight gradual stages • If the declining trend in morbidity continues - kindergartens are expected to open as early as next Thursday • Disagreement among ministers: "If we open some branches, pressure will start to release everything -
Police enforce Corona restrictions in Tel Aviv /// Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
With cautious optimism in the background, the Corona Cabinet will convene today to discuss a possible exit plan for the quarantine, in case it is decided towards the end of next week to begin releasing the economy from the current quarantine.
Prime Minister Netanyahu clarified yesterday that despite the stabilization in the number of patients, it is necessary to wait another ten days to make sure that this is a steady and not momentary decline.
Cabinet ministers will discuss today long-term exit figures, the transition from stage to stage, ways to safeguard the elderly population as well as the possibility of increasing fines and increasing enforcement.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein is expected to oppose any opening that is at least until October 14, next Wednesday.
The Ministry of Health will make it easier for the infection rate to start falling to 0.8 or less, to stop or decrease the number of critically ill patients, and for the daily number of diagnoses to drop to 2,000.
Sources in the cabinet said that the concern is that if they start releasing certain industries, the pressure will start to release more industries and therefore at this stage the hermetic closure should be maintained as much as possible until the set target date.
During the discussion, the ministers will deal with the exit strategy.
According to the professionals in the Ministry of Health, no less than eight stages will be required, with each stage being separated by about three weeks and the transition to each stage will be conditional on no increase in morbidity and coefficient of infection.
In the event of an increase there will be a halt to the relief and there may even be a step back.
Ease of buses
In addition, between each stage the cabinet will convene to confirm the easements, if and when it is decided to move on to the next opening stage.
It has not yet been determined what the eight stages will contain and the Ministry of Health is discussing the issue these days.
Yes, the stages for the transition from stage to stage have not yet been determined.
It is estimated that the first to open, if it is decided to start releasing the quarantine towards next Thursday, will be kindergartens and early childhood settings.
This is to allow parents to go to work.
More in the early stages: Jobs that do not get an audience.
Public transport may also operate in a less restricted format, in order to alleviate the congestion that has developed due to the reduction of public transport in many places.
Minister Amir Peretz will present at the discussion the German model, according to which the payment of the sick leave will not come directly from the state through the Social Security to the employee, but through the employer. This will preserve the employee's social rights. .
Focus: Business without an audience
Finance Minister Israel Katz said last night ahead of the debate: "I oppose closing the economy in exchange for canceling the demonstrations. The policy led by Avi Nissenkorn and Blue and White in backing the legal system is very serious. The demonstrations should be stopped during this period regardless of the closure of the economy."
He said, "At the Corona cabinet meeting, I will propose to allow all private businesses that are not public recipients to return to work, immediately after the Sukkot holiday, in accordance with the standard of the purple mark - and adherence to health rules."
In the Corona cabinet that convened before the eve of Sukkot, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz was urgently summoned.
Steinitz has been taking an extreme line and has been warning for months that government policy is too loose.
He believes that the threshold for leaving the quarantine should be a maximum of 250 new patients a day.
The assessment at the time was that Prime Minister Netanyahu had summoned him to a meeting to serve as a counterweight to the ministers who demanded easing the closure.
