Senior Health Ministry official: "We are troubled by Lag B'Omer BM bonfires" • The ministry has decided that in communities with morbidity that do not comply - a new closure will be imposed
The Ministry of Health warns that it will consider closing down neighborhoods in Jerusalem and elsewhere due to failure to adhere to the gathering guidelines, in light of mass fires that were lit yesterday in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh.
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The Health Ministry official told "Israel Today": "We are disturbed by Lag B'Omer bonfires that we have seen in Jerusalem and elsewhere and are concerned about the outbreak of morbidity." The
senior warns that if the behavior of the population and failure to comply with the guidelines continue - the possibility of declaring neighborhoods in Jerusalem and other places as " "The intention is to create an" operating commission "for a locality where there is exceptional morbidity, or there is a risk of anomalous morbidity, due to a combination of baseline morbidity with local population behavior and the difficulty of the local authority to deal with the phenomenon. There will be a combination of these three parameters, which will be run by the same PLC And for assistance to the PA, advocacy and dialogue with community leaders first, and the possibility of a declaration of 'restricted area' if these measures will not help. "
Remember, despite the Ministry of Health's instructions to prevent the spread of the corona virus in Israel, in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem last night, on Lag Ba'Omer evening, police to disperse hundreds of residents who gathered in many locations.
On several occasions, the Ministry of Health guidelines violated, for example, forces Jerusalem police raided late March the central synagogue in the neighborhood, and located where that worked with dozens of worshipers. late April, police raided a building in the neighborhood, where they studied together 60 people. Director of the place and four teachers were detained.
Jerusalem itself was the focus of infection second largest in Israel with 3,592 virus patients.