Professor Hezi Levy refers to the outbreak of the virus, with the fear that the Corona restrictions will be re-enforced. • Hundreds of infection cases were discovered every day. • A special hearing was held by the National Security Council today, and the Corona Cabinet will meet tomorrow.

The incoming Health Director General, Professor Hezi Levy, is holding a press conference this evening (Sunday) following fears of a second wave of the Corona virus in Israel. 

Professor Hezi Levi on the Corona eruption // Photo: June Rickner

The CEO opened his remarks in detail about the morbidity data in Israel, noting that some 300 verified patients a day have been discovered in the past few days.

"We see far younger patients than we saw during the closure months," Levy continued, "The verified are spread over 50 communities, which teaches us about a wide community spread. If there was a substantial percentage of returners in the beginning, it does not exist now and it is community morbidity. , Which poses a challenge in cutting the adhesive chains and epidemiological investigations. "

"I ordered the opening of three more corona departments"

"Yesterday I ordered the opening of three more Corona departments to promote the rise in hospitalization and the severely ill and respiratory illnesses. We are conducting state assessments with the Health Ministry, the Prime Minister's Office of the Prime Minister, who gives his opinion and guidance on this matter and other mentors in the government ministries," Levy concluded. Comment and open the discussion for questions. 

Asked if there is a place to close, the CEO said he did not believe there was a place to close at this time, but warned that if the Ministry of Health guidelines were not kept, it might be imposed in the future. The government is still not talking about it either. But - and this is a call for members of the citizens of Israel - it is up to us.

"We live with the disease, it is not gone, we can. It can be used with caution - making sure the tools keep us safe from closure. Nobody wants to go back to closure, no one wants to risk health. And we understand that we can flatten the curve and the number of infected ones, we can live in the shade of the cornea. It will take a long time for vaccines, drugs and more to develop. "

"Protect from winter flu"

"The tests are important," Levy related to the question about the amount of tests being done in the country. "Today we are more liberal and we try to do the tests, but we have to make sure we do the right thing and do it right." If all asymptomatic patients who have not come into contact with a patient have been tested, there is no benefit in preventing the disease. On the other hand, we have increased the subject of testing among asymptomatic people who were in the first and second circle, and also in nursing homes. We have increased testing among the foreign, weakened populations. To my delight, another lab opened in Petah Tikva. All with the aim of cutting off the adhesive chain as much as possible. "

"Winter presents us with a problematic condition. Flu and Corrana symptoms are similar, and at the beginning of winter this year there will be no vaccines for Corona, but there will also be flu vaccines and I urge everyone - go get the flu. The more we get the flu, and clear the flu, the less we can relieve it. About the hospitals and the rush, and we can develop that patients who develop symptoms or fever develop a cornea because they have been vaccinated with the flu.

An AM report states: The second wave is already here

Remember, over the past week, there has been concern that the rise in the virus infection across Israel marks the beginning of a second wave, with hundreds of new patients being diagnosed every day. A report compiled by the IDF even claimed that such a second wave had already begun, but the report was rejected by senior health officials.

According to the report, "Israel is currently undergoing a second wave of morbidity in Corona and urgent and immediate steps must be taken related to enforcement and cessation of relief to avoid the closure in a month. Without these steps, the number of new infections will reach more than one thousand within a month and the number of deceased will reach hundreds. "The report is connected to the" Corona National Information and Knowledge Center, "a center where members of the UN and the Ministry of Health are members.

It is also noted in the report that while a month ago, during May, the average daily adherence was 16, today the number of adherents is over 200 per day, and even over the last 300 days.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not yet announced new guidelines, but he has also warned of the pace of the infections. "All forecasts are bleak, if we do not wear masks and keep distance - the closures will return," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the opening of the cabinet meeting this morning.

Health Minister Edelstein on corona eruption in education // Photo: Ami Shamir

"This weekend I held consultations on the steep rise in morbidity in Corona. This morning I asked for a meeting of all the CEOs of the relevant ministries, also of the local government, with the head of the NSC and various experts who gave their assessments. They gave me different forecasts of different bodies And these forecasts are all tough. We must flatten the curve now.

"I will enter the Corona Cabinet tomorrow and discuss the steps needed to curb the epidemic. If we do not immediately change our behavior about wearing masks and keeping a distance, we will bring ourselves, contrary to our wishes, the closure of closure. So none of us want it. Asking you citizens of Israel to wear masks and keep the distance, "he added.