The rate of positive tests in the city - almost twice the national rate

The rate of positive tests for Corona in Beit Shemesh is about 11 percent, almost twice the national rate. Due to the alarming state of morbidity, the Beit Shemesh municipality is stepping up its efforts to combat the corona, and in just the last 24 hours the Municipal Evacuation Authority has evacuated 26 verified Corona patients and their families to isolation in hotels.

Photo: Yoni Rickner, David Perlmutter / The group of ultra-Orthodox protesters

The Beit Shemesh municipality referred to the Chamal evacuation of the municipal evacuation and said: "The Chamal evacuation in Beit Shemesh works with the aim of evacuating all corona patients from the city to hotels." Gadi Damari, who lives in Beit Shemesh, told Israel Today: "Beit Shemesh, and with its emphasis on the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, has become a corona hatchery. This is a plague. I call the rabbis, I call my ultra-Orthodox brothers - ' On the instructions of the Ministry of Health. " At the same time, I call on the authorities in the city and in the country to get the corona patients out of our midst, to send them to hotels until they fully recover, so that they do not infect their family and their environment. "

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Yosef Ben Lulu, who also lives in Beit Shemesh, added: "This figure indicates that there is a small area of ​​the neighborhoods that are closed, that they do not take procedures seriously and then there is greater exposure. The fundamental change in Beit Shemesh is that people go for tests. There is concern. "For a significant outbreak of corona throughout Israel and not just in Beit Shemesh. There is where and where. The treatment is cruel as far as the ultra-Orthodox are concerned and there is selective enforcement against the ultra-Orthodox."

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The current data on Beit Shemesh come after earlier today, the Ministry of Health announced this morning that over the past day, about 1,681 blue Israelis have been diagnosed with the virus, a new daily record. Additional alarming figures are also evident in the increase in the number of severe patients which now stands at 180, with 36 of them added from yesterday. The number of respirators is 55. 

Last night, Shas factions and Torah Judaism met for a meeting with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Prime Minister's Office to discuss with him the closures in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods and the allegations of police violence against the ultra-Orthodox public. Shas chairman Minister Deri stressed: The ultra-Orthodox public, I call on the Prime Minister and the Minister of Internal Security to act for equal enforcement. "