Prime Minister Olmert warned: "Millions in the world could die from the Corona" • On the unity government: "A torchy torch" • During the Sabbath, hundreds overflowed the beaches and playgrounds, and the Health Ministry director called them: "Please, come home" • Quantity Tests have doubled over the past four days
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in an interview with News 12 that the fight against Corona is far from over, and urged civilians to stay at their home.
Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
Netanyahu said in his speech: "No one knows right now where it will come - we know how it started and do not know how it will end. The epidemic started in China, moved to Italy and from there to the rest of the world. The countries that did not block their borders are much worse. Italy, Spain Iran is talking about deaths, not patients - that's the index. Even in the United States, closures like ours are at least approaching. The death rate can range from two percent to 4. In Israel, it can reach many thousands of dead. Because we made a decision to close the border. What I try to do is locate, isolate, and treat patients. There are economics, livelihoods, subsistence "I want to release the healthy at the same time. To find the patients we use digital means."
About the Health Ministry criticism, Netanyahu said: "Health budgets more than doubled during my time. There were missing and I do not say no, but right now what is important is to work and isolate. Right now most health systems are on the verge of collapse so it does not matter. The patients. "
On the unity government, he said: "I came up with a generous proposal (for white and blue), people were amazed. I said that we will evenly distribute the Knesset committees. This is how some unity governments do. But Lapid wants to violate it. It is hard to decide, what a torch is hard to decide. What prevents unity is an attempt to take over and oust the Speaker of the Knesset. They can replace the chair and then there is no unity. They said: "You are the first prime minister, and you have the Speaker of the Knesset." Yair Lapid has a crazy idea. Yair Lapid is crazy. And yet I urge him to join, and Lieberman as well. "
Despite the drastic increase in the number of Corona patients, the strict guidelines, the ban on crowds and the call for the public not to reach the beaches and public parks, thousands overstayed the beaches of Haifa, the Krayot and the Western Galilee in spring weather. Many beachgoers claim this morning that there were no inspectors or police who called on the public not to congregate and observe the closure guidelines.
According to videos on social networks, crowds were seen wandering the streets of Tel Aviv, Rabin Square and the promenade. Prompting Health Ministry CEO Moshe Bar to tweet in his Twitter account: "The beautiful weather has taken people to the streets, please come home," with the goal of getting people back to their homes and continuing to follow the office's guidelines.
Meanwhile, new data from the Ministry of Health this morning show that the number of tests has doubled over the past four days. However, the data on the number of positive patients from the subjects cannot give us information on the prevalence of the virus in the general population.
This is because only specific populations of people returning from abroad or people who have been in contact with patients are examined. Therefore, the largest group of patients between the ages of 30 and 39 (14% of patients) is not necessarily representative, because these ages may travel more abroad. "To.
Prof. Hagai Levin, chairman of the Association of Public Health Doctors, said: "Only the publication of the percentage of positive patients among all newly hospitalized patients due to pneumonia will allow an estimate of the true number of patients in Israel."