Prime Minister Netanyahu: "Israeli Citizens Need to Stay at Home, That's Guidance for Enforcement"

In the area of ​​the outbreak of illness at Hadassah Hospital, an 89-year-old Corona patient is hospitalized in human condition. The hospital was told Thursday evening that she was suffering from rapid respiratory deterioration. The patient has been hospitalized in Hadassah for three days and today her condition has deteriorated significantly. The same patient is a resident of a nursing home in Jerusalem, where several infections were discovered. Shaare Zedek Hospital has an 88-year-old patient in the same nursing home.

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Of the 12 corona patients admitted to Hadassah - two are in moderate condition and the rest are in mild condition. "Four patients from the Hadassah outbreak complex were released and transferred from the afternoon to the Dan Panorama Hotel in Tel Aviv, and two more to the Samuel Hotel physician's facility, where monitoring will continue," said Hadassah. "Two new patients, 48 ​​and 75 years old, were brought to the complex tonight."

The Ministry of Health this evening updated the number of coronated patients in Israel, which now stands at 677 people. Six of the patients were in serious condition, 13 were in moderate condition and 644 were in mild condition. 14 patients were healed and released to their homes. Of the total number of patients, 266 are hospitalized, 86 are in home care and 47 are in health care hotels.

Meanwhile, as the number of Corona patients and IDF preparations rise to help enforce the government's directives to prevent the spread of the Corona, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made another statement to the public this evening announcing the intensification of measures to eradicate the epidemic for the first time for one-week emergency regulations to allow anti-traffic enforcement To be approved by the government tonight.

Netanyahu said, "The epidemic continues to spread and has taken thousands of victims worldwide. Even in Israel, the number of patients is increasing every day. Until now no one in Israel has died of the corona, but unfortunately it will not continue. The other day I asked to obey the instructions of the Ministry of Health and remain at home. The government will approve emergency traffic restrictions tonight.You, citizens of Israel, are required to stay home.This is not a recommendation, but a mandatory guideline enforced by enforcement agencies.It is difficult, but I ask for your cooperation with these regulations. They will stick and as little as they will. "

Netanyahu added: "If anyone thinks I'm exaggerating, look at the pictures from Spain and Italy, look at the teams that are no longer treating life but loading the dead with special vehicles. This must not happen here. Everything has to be done to make it happen. "I want the people to enforce them first and foremost. There is a police force and a duty, but I first ask for the duty and internal recognition that each of you has to adhere to. Everyone stays at home except for staff approved by the Treasury."

The prime minister also said: "You can leave the houses for food and medicine, medical treatment and other exceptions that will be presented by the Ministry of Health. Even if you leave for a short time, do not huddle. Keep the distance rules - 2 meters and much more desirable. This is not a game that can make fates.

"The whole world is in a huge shortage of protective suits, face masks and respirators. Countries are competing for this equipment. Even if there is a prospect that a pandemic like a Corona can someday be held for years, equipment that has expired in a short period of time. We run the Ministry of Finance, the Foreign and the Institution. There are factories in the world and there is self-production. We work to protect our medical teams - the heroes at the forefront. We all applaud them today. They do tremendous work while risking themselves. Some of the leading countries in the world on this subject, there are things we learn from us and there are things we learn from brother S. My guidance we get to 5000 or more daily testing. This will put Israel at the top countries in the world. "

Health Minister Ya'akov Litzman added: "All the regulations we made today in the Ministry of Health - all of which come to make it easier for the public to keep themselves safe. I know we are in an emergency. We will not hesitate to do what is necessary to save the people of Israel. And the nurses, the hospitals and MDA, the health funds - they do holy work. "

Ministry of Health Director General Moshe Barr good sign: "We are taking hard steps today. The movement of people outside the home space is greatly reduced. This time not with a recommendation but with a guideline - do not leave the house. Except as permitted. Many ask what will happen in two weeks or a month. The first is to postpone the outbreak of disease, the second to reduce the number of patients and the third to spread the patients on the timeline. Every day we postpone the outbreak we gain time and stock up. We absorb a lot more personnel in hospitals. Students to help us overcome the disease.

Prof. Hagai Levin, chairman of the Association of Public Health Doctors, addressed the Prime Minister's announcement: "We have not been presented with a regular, data-based plan tonight that shows the rationale for a complete closure and how we will emerge from the crisis later. What were the considerations for the decision? What is the model by which it is determined? what is the next step? What's the plan? Understand the short-term tactics - buy time, but what's the strategy? That is not how public health policy is set. "

Operation "beam of light" is underway

Earlier today, an IDF spokesman updated the military's steps under the "Keren Or" command for reinforcing the police and the medical system in Israel.

Among other things, the IDF will assist in operating a national emergency portal that will include all Corona guidelines, as well as technological developments such as converting home respirators to respirators that assist corona patients, producing protective masks to assist medical teams, turning ill-screened vehicles into auxiliary medical equipment, Conduct the tests.

This week, Health Minister Moshe Bar warned that the crisis would worsen and take a living: "We will see an increase in the number of patients, and probably in the very next few days, maybe tomorrow, 100 new patients a day, and the numbers will continue to rise. We will reach hundreds of new patients a day, and eventually people will die from the disease. Unfortunately, in our scenarios there could be many thousands of Israeli residents dying from the disease. We want to get the numbers as low as possible. We want to flatten the curve as much as possible, but even in the most optimistic scenarios, people will die. "