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Families on the "Corona Ship": "Not willing to participate in the experiment" Israel today

2020-02-11T12:17:56.550Z


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Members of families send letter to state request to bring them back • "Israel and Japanese governments and shipping company are responsible for default" • At the same time dozens of other cases of infection were discovered on board • Ministry of Health: "Despite the false messages no patient was diagnosed" • 3 additional laboratories will be trained

  • Emergency crews work on Corona ship // Archive photo: Gettyimages

About 130 of the ship's anchors at Yokohama Harbor have been evacuated in recent days after being found to carry the Corona virus. Now, 152 children and grandchildren of the Israelis on the ship have issued a letter urging them to return to Israel for various reasons, including their health status and the prospect of being exposed to the virus in the ship.

On the Diamond Princess ship are 17 Israelis, 10 of them from the same family. The 3,700 passengers are still in solitary confinement and are scheduled to leave on February 19, after the end of the solitary confinement. At the same time, dozens of other patients were evacuated from the ship today, and the suspicion of the deadly virus has been tested.

Public buildings in China have become makeshift hospitals // Photo: Reuters

In the letter, entitled "Returned Parents", the Israeli families turn to the state and ask that they work to bring their loved ones back from the ship so that they can continue the isolation period in Israel. "It is impossible to continue to let the Japanese do as much as they can to the citizens of Israel, and the State of Israel is watching from the sidelines. We are not prepared to be part of this experiment. The State of Israel must take responsibility and fight for their return and their health," they wrote.

"Our parents are not criminals, drug smugglers, and evade the law - they are citizens of the country who went on a trip after a double disaster that happened in the family. As far as the Japanese are concerned, the ship will be gone. They are doing the great experiment in disease isolation. Because of the plumbing systems, the electricity, the conditions Environmental and more, the healthy are also exposed to many issues every day. "

The letter also states: "We consider the Japanese government, the shipping company and the Israeli government responsible for this failure. The Japanese - who do not transfer them to medical isolation, the shipping company - allow the Japanese government to do the ship at will, and the authorities in Israel who hand them over to another government with different priorities."

"We demand that an emergency team be set up to include the Foreign Ministry representative, the Ministry of Health, a specialist engineer in the hospital systems and a representative on our behalf. This team should take care of a protected area in Israel according to the engineering and medical rules that will receive our family members for isolation in Israel, under acceptable medical conditions. This team needs to work with the Japanese immediately to release them to fly to the country, "they added.

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The daily update issued by the Ministry of Health states, among other things, that: "To date, approximately 140 patients have been tested in Israel who have suspected that they have been infected with the corona virus. All the answers received are negative and have not been diagnosed in Israel at this time. Will arrive in Israel and the system continues to prepare for this scenario.



To that end, the Ministry of Health has increased the number of tests at the Tel Hashomer Central Laboratory, and in the next few days will train 3 additional laboratories for testing and validation of the Corona virus: in Soroka, Hadassah and Rambam hospitals. The Ministry of Health stresses and reiterates the phenomenon of false news ("Pike" News ") that are distributed on social networks and cause deliberate deception. The ministry has contacted the Israeli police to investigate the cases," they added.

"There is no research that can indicate risk groups"

Speaking to Professor Eyal Leshem, an infectious disease specialist at Sheba Hospital and Herzliya Medical, he explained: "This is a disease that accounts for about two percent of the victims. There is concern that in countries such as India, Pakistan and African countries where the undeveloped health system passes from one to two without And that's pretty dangerous.

In China, too, there is a possibility that there are quite a few victims and infected who still do not know about them. There are also quite a few recoverers and this is mainly due to a proper immune system, there is no cure for the virus and anyone in risk groups may experience difficulties in dealing with it. It is important to note that the adhesives are not just Asians. Currently, there is no research that could indicate risk groups by race, but there are also non-Asian infections. "

Source: israelhayom

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