Two months since the virus outbreak in China, the deadly virus has also arrived in Israel: one of 11 passengers of the "Corona ship" who returned to Israel was found positive in the virus detection test • The woman is currently in solitary confinement in Tel Hashomer, along with the other passengers returning • Ministry of Health: "The infection did not occur in Israel"

Corona virus arrives in Israel: The Ministry of Health announced Friday that one of the " Corona ship" passengers returning to Israel had been infected with the deadly virus.

The official statement released by the Ministry of Health said: "A check in the Central Laboratory's Laboratory found that one of the passengers returning from the ship in Japan was found to be positive. The lab continues to confirm the findings of the test. We would like to note that the rest of the passengers who are currently under examination are currently in the patient, And this is not a contagion that occurred in Israel. "

The 11 Israelis aboard the Diamond Princess in Japan for the past two weeks, and did not appear to have developed any disease symptoms, landed at Ben Gurion Airport at two weeks after a nervous breakdown. Immediately after landing, they were taken to isolation at a Sheba hospital in Tel Hashomer. Four Israelis infected with the virus remained. For Japan hospital treatment.

Photo: Shmuel Buchris

When they got off the plane, some of the Israelis who returned to Israel said "blessedness", and one of them welcomed "that we were alive and well, we arrived at this time." The medical staff who arrived at Ben Gurion Airport said, "We are not sick, we are healthy."

Prof. Itzik Kreis Director Shiba said after receiving the passengers: "They are with us and understand the sensitivity of the situation. Our goal is to get them into the routine as soon as possible. At noon we will get results of the samples taken from them. Phase I of the mission is over. "

Entrance to the area where the passengers will be isolated for two weeks // Photo: Coco

The isolation takes place in a building outside the hospital fence, not far from the IDF bases near Tel Hashomer, which has so far been used by hospital staff. It contains about 20 rooms with ensuite bathroom and shower. Some can serve as couples and some are isolated. Central spaces: a courtyard-enclosed building to which the insulators can go, each time residents of another room are called to take a walk or take food.

Each room will be equipped with monitoring devices and under the mattresses sensors will be installed to measure pulse and breathing during sleep. Changes in these metrics may be a predictor of a rise in heat. The recluses will be fitted with blood pressure gauges, thermometers and blisters through which they will take their throats.

Passengers on their way to Sheba // Photo: Coco

The isolation was designed so that virtually no contact between the passengers and the medical staff was required, and the communication with them would be via video chat with doctors through the television screens in their room. The doctors will be in a specialist room outside the building. The chat can be with all passengers together or with each room individually, and passengers will be screened with appropriate content as well as tutorials related to handling them.

In the Ben David family home, Dahan and Levi in ​​Eilat entered the emergency room last night. From the moment they were informed of their family's release from the ship in Japan, preparations for their arrival began. Maggie Dahan, Ortal Malka, Lihi Levy and Noa Ben David, made lists and packed up objects to be used by their loved ones during the expected isolation period for the next two weeks at Sheba Hospital.

The suitcases they made packed personalized clothes, bathtubs, cosmetics and favorite foods. Also added photos of family members, personal letters and some dried fruit. Three representatives of the families, who live in Eilat, arrived at the hospital this week and met with the medical staff.

"Unfortunately, we were not allowed to see them in the isolation complex, not even at Ben Gurion Airport," said Ilan Ben David, whose wife Nicole is in solitary confinement. "We were told that on leaving the plane, they would be put into sterile incubator-like beds and thus transferred to the hospital. We will continue to wait for them at home. "

The facility is ready for any situation

The doctor in charge of their treatment, Dr. Gadi Segal, said last night: "Those with chronic illnesses will also undergo medical examinations, but we know they went on a healthy flight and treated them that way. If any of them develop symptoms, then the facility is ready for both inpatient and intensive care. "

Aren't you afraid of contacting them?
"There is concern, but we are taking precautionary measures above reasonable. It's a disease we don't know about its character, and so we go down to the smallest details. My family sees it as a mission."

"We are very pleased with the process we are going through and will be going through in the next two weeks," said Nicole Ben David, one of the Israelis who were on the ship yesterday. "We are obviously treated as if we were infected with the Corona virus, like lepers, but we understand that this is the price we have to pay to make Israel feel calm and secure."

Load in the emergency rooms

The exams done in the emergency rooms for anyone returning with fever from some countries create a heavy burden on hospitals in Israel. Last month, 466 patients were suspected of being in Corona, but no diagnosed corona has yet been discovered in Israel.

One of the emergency room managers warned: "If I get 2-3 people a day, I need to isolate them and assign a special team. It partially disables the screening and creates a burden. We asked the Ministry of Health to take these tests to an outside place or even to community clinics."
Of thousands of people returning from countries requiring home isolation (China, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macau), only 584 people contacted the Voice Health Center and reported on their return and stay in solitary confinement. Of these, 416 in isolation are now active.

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The Ministry of Health has already received dozens of reports of citizens who do not fulfill the isolation duty and handle complaints personally. The ministry explained that a breach of a home isolation order could result in a criminal charge for "an act that may spread disease" or "a legal violation." The punishment for these offenses ranged from 3 to 7 years in prison. The Office of Supervision and Enforcement began yesterday with the order enforcement activity, with crews arriving home protected.

Meanwhile, the fight against the Ministry of Health's intention to turn the rectangular geriatric hospital in Rishon Lezion into an isolation compound for Corona patients has intensified. The municipality intends to petition the court for the contempt of a previous decision, based on the fact that the ministry undertook to operate only if there were more than a thousand patients in the country when the practice had already begun bringing in equipment and beds.