Two kindergartens and a daycare center in Ramat Gan were sent to solitary confinement after a Bnei Brak assistant arrived at work without having previously undergone a corona examination. • The mayor: "A complaint will be filed against her"
"Hope no one gets infected"
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Oren Ben Hakon - Archive
Despite an order from the Ministry of Education for kindergarten teachers to undergo corona tests before the kindergartens opened, an assistant in Ramat Gan did not listen to the instruction, came to work after returning from quarantine - and entered two kindergartens and a daycare for isolation.
Ramat Gan Mayor Carmel Shama-Hacohen: "A complaint will be filed against her. Anyone who comes to work without being infected will be sued."
In a Facebook post, Shama-Hacohen wrote: "Thanks to the steps we have taken, we have been privileged to reach zero cases of verification, isolation and infection in kindergartens since their opening."
However, he said, this morning (Wednesday) he received "information that seemed delusional, detached from all reality and logical and faint but due to the sensitivity of the days and the health of the children. I asked to interrogate him and it turns out to be true.
Transparency is not only in the reflection of achievements and successes but first and foremost in the sharing of less pleasant news.
Thanks to the steps we took, we were able to reach zero ...
Posted by Carmel Shama HaCohen on Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Later in the post, the mayor noted: "An assistant in our kindergartens chose to ignore our call to be tested on Sunday and receive a daily wage for it and only went to be tested on Monday after she had already come to work in two kindergartens. "In violation of the closure, our education system could not prevent this because its registered address with us is in a green city in the Sharon.
Shama-Hacohen clarified that during the day, a VIP testing complex was set up in Sheba for the benefit of assistants who come from cities where the closure was lifted yesterday, but according to him "few came."
He added: "Unfortunately, the law does not allow us to oblige anyone to be tested and not to condition the renewal of their placement for work. The Histadrut, in a delusional way, backs a refusal to answer parents' questions about whether they have been tested. At the same time, .
"We inform anyone who insists on arriving without being checked and found negative and will turn out to be positive in the following days - the municipality will sue him for damages for all the damages, which are estimated at hundreds of thousands of shekels."
