Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called on his fellow citizens to continue wearing a mask and respecting physical distancing, after a significant increase in the number of patients affected by the Covid-19 epidemic, following the deconfinement.
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Speaking after a ministerial cabinet meeting devoted to the fight against the new coronavirus, he reported nearly 1,000 new cases of contamination in the past 24 hours. But he said that for the moment, everything remained open - party rooms, bars, nightclubs, synagogues, workplaces, etc. " We do not want to go back to a policy of general containment ," he said. -he says.
However, he announced the reinstatement of a restriction: only 50 people are now allowed to assemble in closed public places, such as places of worship, and only 20 people can assemble in a house. Prime Minister and Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein also reiterated the importance of continuing to wear a protective mask, respecting physical distance and hygienic rules. " We are at war for the good of the people, " said Yuli Edelstein.
With a population of around nine million, Israel announced its first case of the new coronavirus on February 21. Since then, 26,452 cases - including 980 in the last 24 hours - have been officially recorded. Among them, 324 people died from Covid-19 disease. The Israeli parliament passed a law on Wednesday allowing the government to use its internal security agency to trace people infected with the new coronavirus.
Until recently, Israel boasted of its management of the pandemic but, as deconfinement, the number of infected has started to rise again.
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