news
News in Israel
health
Trade will close, traffic limit of up to km: Israel enters a third closure
The restrictions will take effect at 17:00 and last for at least two weeks, with the possibility of an extension of two more weeks.
The education system will operate as usual, except for the fifth-tenth grades who will return to distance learning.
The Chief of Staff of Magen Israel estimates that the quarantine will be extended and is concerned about the British mutation: "It may influence decisions later"
Tags
Clasp
Corona virus
Meirav Cohen
Sunday, December 27, 2020, 6:30 p.m.
Share on Facebook
Share on WhatsApp
Share on general
Share on general
Share on Twitter
Share on Email
0 comments
Trump vetoed defense budget: "Gift to Russia ...
Four cyclists reported missing were located during ...
Prof. Ash in Umm al-Fahm: "There were a lot of patients here, go ...
Protest at the national headquarters in Jerusalem, following the killing of her beloved boy ...
Elkin: I am leaving in peace and out of responsibility.
For years ...
Netanyahu: Israel will be the first country to emerge from an epidemic ...
IAEA Chairman: A new agreement with Iran will be required to revive ...
Hundreds protest against the death of her beloved godfather ...
Drivers stuck in UK due to border closure after discovery ...
A 40-year-old electric bicycle rider was killed by a car near ...
Camp for children with polio, August 1956 23.12.20
In the video: Ministry of Health Director General Prof. Hezi Levy at a media briefing (Photo: GPO)
The State of Israel will enter the closure today (Sunday), at 17:00, for the third time since the corona plague began, about ten months ago.
According to the government's decision, the closure will last for at least two weeks, with the possibility of extending it for another two weeks.
Traffic restrictions of up to one kilometer from home will apply, non-essential places of commerce, recreation and leisure will be closed, and fifth- to tenth-grade studies will be discontinued.
The fine for violating the traffic restriction will be NIS 500.
On the other hand, the restrictions will not include: going out to get vaccinated, medical or social care, demonstration, legal proceedings, going out for foot sports activities, transferring a minor between his separated parents, going out to a work place or educational setting that is allowed, and going out to attend a funeral, wedding or alliance (subject To the crowd limit).
Also, staying in another person's house will be banned, the layout of the green islands in Eilat and the Dead Sea will be stopped, businesses that do not receive crowds will operate in a 50% format, the crowd will be limited to ten people in a closed and 20 open space and public transportation will be reduced to 50%.
In addition, gatherings of up to 20 people in an open place and up to ten people in a closed place will be prohibited.
More on Walla!
NEWS
The malls and fashion chains are threatening: we will open the business exactly two weeks from the start of the closure
Experts warn: The third closure will increase depression and despair
Police are preparing for the third closure: about 300 checkpoints in the evening and thousands of police officers will be deployed
Buying car insurance?
This is how you will do it right
Tel Aviv police checkpoint in the second closure, September (Photo: Reuven Castro)
What will be closed?
Accommodation units and B & Bs
Zoo and safari
Nature reserve, national parks, national sites and memorial sites
Non-medical treatments: hairdresser, beauty and cosmetic treatments and complementary medicine
Drive not to watch movies
A mall or retail market
Museums
The Green Islands (Eilat and the Dead Sea) will be eliminated
Public and business places will be closed, except for essential stores in the areas of food, pharmacies, hygiene, optics, electrical appliances and products needed for essential home repairs.
There will be a complete closure of accommodation units and B & Bs, zoos, nature reserves, national parks, national sites and memorial sites.
In addition, the opening of non-medical care places, including hairdressers and beauty salons and cosmetics, and complementary medicine clinics will be banned.
Also, the malls, markets and museums, drive-in complexes for watching movies will be closed, and the possibility of self-collection from restaurants will be eliminated.
More on Walla!
NEWS
The corona cabinet zigzagged, the traffic light plan faded: this is how Israel reached a third closure
To the full article
Only essential trade will remain open.
Closed stores in the Big Castina complex (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Regarding sports training facilities - it will be possible to operate a place used for training or competition of professional athletes only.
There will be no practical driving lessons and there will be a ban on organized trips.
According to the outline initially proposed, the education system in the lower grades and early childhood was supposed to end at 1 p.m.
The Ministry of Health will excuse the decision by saying that "they wanted to give citizens a sense of closure."
After it was discovered that the decision has no epidemiological logic and in addition it will burden the parents, the government backed it and after a re-discussion it was decided that the education system will continue to operate normally, even in red cities, except for fifth-tenth graders who return to distance learning.
Exceptional cases where the mileage limit can be crossed
Exit to get vaccinated
Medical or social care
demonstration
Legal proceedings
Departure for sports activities
Transfer of a minor between his separated parents
Exit to a workplace or educational setting whose activities are permitted
Departure for the purpose of attending a funeral, wedding or alliance (subject to the gathering limit)
More to leave home to get vaccinated, demonstrate or participate in legal proceedings (Photo: Reuven Castro)
In addition, open-air activities and trips in all classes, studies in the thirteenth and fourteenth grades, which are continuing studies for high school, and activities of youth movements will be prohibited.
On the other hand, there will continue to be activities for students in special education and for dropout and at-risk youth, as well as boarding schools and studies in immigrant classes.
Practical studies in educational institutions or vocational training will take place online.
The Corona Cabinet also ruled that workplaces employing more than ten workers would not be able to allow simultaneous stay of workers at a rate exceeding 50% of the workforce in the workplace, or ten workers, whichever was higher.
The institutions that will be excluded are workplaces that provide essential services, establishments for the provision of subsistence services, establishments with a special permit to employ a worker during rest hours and workplaces that engage in construction or infrastructure works.
It will also be possible to open up the defense industry and pro-security enterprises, to which other restrictions will apply.
Employers will be required to continue to meet the conditions of the purple mark.
Between 4,000 and 6,000 police officers.
Enforcement activity in Tel Aviv (Photo: Israel Police Spokeswoman)
The traffic division of the police will operate more than 300 checkpoints throughout the country during the closure.
According to senior police officials, the checkpoints, some of which will be stationary and some of which will be skipped, will be set up at all hours of the day, but will be reinforced mainly from 6:30 p.m.
The forces that will work to enforce the closure will be divided into two levels, both of which will be staffed by between 4,000 and 6,000 police officers.
Another explained to the police that it may be necessary, they will request reinforcements to the army. The demonstrations would continue in accordance with the law even outside the range of a kilometer, and during which required the demonstrators to keep a distance of two meters from each other, a complex and difficult. "Part of the public vaccinated and enters the type of Indifference, the responsibility is public, "the police clarified.
" We hope to encounter as few unpleasant interfaces as possible between citizens and police officers, and hope that this is the last closure.
This closure will be similar to the second closure, the restrictions still allow freedom of movement. "The sources clarified that" we are seeing protests and we are expected to see protests tomorrow as well, even near the entrance of the closure. "
"We'll see the effect in just two weeks"
Tomer Lotan, head of the Magen Israel staff at the Ministry of Health, explained to Walla!
NEWS that there is a reasonable chance that the quarantine will last four weeks.
"The second closure started on September 18 and we entered it with an order of magnitude of 4,000 infected on a weekly average," Lotan says. "Two weeks later, at the end of September, we already had 9,000 new diagnoses a day. The stopping distance takes at least ten days, so the closure effect We will only see two more weeks. "
"I estimate that in two weeks we will probably have about 7,000 new infections per day. These are numbers at a great acceleration that can be caused due to the high coefficient of infection and also because of the mutation. That is, only in two weeks we will see a slowdown, but there will be no significant decrease," Lotan states.
"Estimates that there will be no significant decline in two weeks."
Barrier checkpoint in Nazareth, November (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Lotan is concerned about the British mutation that managed to penetrate the country's borders.
"The bad news is that it came to the country, and the good news is that all the cases we have encountered so far have been of people returning from abroad and catching them," Lotan explains. He notes that "we do not yet have clear evidence that it affects community morbidity.
If it seems so, it could affect the decisions we make later. "
Lotan states that there will be no escape from extending the closure beyond two weeks." We explained to the members of the Corona cabinet that in order to reach an adhesion coefficient of 0.7 requires 25 days of hermetic closure.
In a situation where not all trading is closed and some of the studies are open, the probability is lower, so our estimate is that we will need four weeks of closure. "Lotan is quick to defend the decision made:" Also in September they 'went down' on the closure and said it was 'Pike closure' , But he managed to lower the adhesion coefficient to 0.65.
That surprised us, too. "
"Impossible zigzag of the Corona cabinet"
Lotan does not hide his anger at cabinet members.
"We came to this closure because it was difficult for ministers to make decisions and it became an impossible zigzag," he says, noting that "in some cases it made sense to wait so as not to hurt business and education, but now it only prolongs and deepens the closure. There is a reasonable chance that we could have avoided the closure. "
"We asked to close all the studies and the Ministry of Education asked for it to remain open - we tried to reach a compromise that in the end turned out to be unsuccessful," Lotan explains the farce of shortened studies.
"In the morning they had a new discussion and we understood that it needed to be changed, and that's a good thing. It's hard to know if it would hurt the closure."
Despite the closure, the vaccination campaign continues as usual.
Vaccination of Corona in HMO (Photo: Reuven Castro)
Lotan emphasizes that despite the closure, the vaccination campaign continues as usual: "It's like medical treatment - no permits need to be presented. The second closure also did not ask for permits from anyone and there were permits to go to demonstrations, etc. It is important to remember that this is no longer a closure. The vaccines work, so we can get out of the corona crisis in a few weeks, "Lotan concludes.
Share on Facebook
Share on WhatsApp
Share on general
Share on general
Share on Twitter
Share on Email
0 comments