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Starting tonight: returnees from the UAE and Brazil will be charged for isolation in hotels - Walla! news

2021-01-17T20:19:50.134Z


Ministers decided in a telephone poll that anyone returning from both countries, as well as from South Africa and Zambia would be required to spend the period of isolation in hotels. Israelis returning from other countries will still have to be checked at Ben Gurion Airport to avoid a similar charge. About 3 weeks ago, the obligation to return hotels from all countries was abolished.


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As of tonight: returnees from the UAE and Brazil will be charged for isolation in hotels

Ministers decided in a telephone poll that anyone returning from both countries, as well as from South Africa and Zambia would be required to spend the period of isolation in hotels.

Israelis returning from other countries will still have to be checked at Ben Gurion Airport to avoid a similar charge. About 3 weeks ago, the obligation to return hotels from all countries was abolished.

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Meirav Cohen

Sunday, 17 January 2021, 22:07

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The government approved tonight (Sunday) in a telephone poll to require isolation in a motel for all returnees from South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Brazil and Zambia.

The decision will take effect tonight at 1 p.m.

At the same time, it was decided to extend the obligation of solitary confinement in a hotel for two weeks for anyone returning from any country in the world, unless he agreed to be checked upon entering the country, and undertook to carry out a further inspection after nine days until 1 February.



During the month of December, with the discovery of the British Corona mutation, all returnees from abroad were required to enter upon their landing at Ben Gurion Airport for isolation in hotels.

The order was later revoked with the decision to require corona tests at Ben Gurion Airport.



Health Minister Yuli Edelstein instructed his office staff to remove the installation as soon as possible "for returning from abroad from all countries, subject to corona testing."

He explained that "any returnee from abroad who is allowed to enter the country should have an immediate check-up and leave for home isolation for two weeks, or ten days if he does another check-up on the ninth day.



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He also wrote on Twitter that "those who are now in hotels, after an inspection, will be able to move to home isolation."

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Passengers who landed in Israel and were taken to solitary confinement at a hotel in Jerusalem, in December (Photo: Unnamed)

In the background of the impending decision are the morbidity data of Israelis returning from the United Arab Emirates, and especially from Dubai.

Beyond that, over the weekend, four more cases of the South African corona mutation were discovered in the Ministry of Health's central laboratory for viruses, using a flooring process.




In the last day, 5,011 people were diagnosed in Corona.

This increased the number of infected patients in Israel to 546,087.

Yesterday, results were obtained for 71,186 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 7.2%.

The test data and their results are not final and may change in subsequent updates from the Ministry of Health.

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