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"Ramadan May Lead to Unprecedented Outbreak" | Israel today

2021-03-01T22:19:37.675Z


| In the country Concern in the Ministry of Health: Along with an increase in morbidity, the wedding season and the holiday next month will lead to catastrophe • "The Arab public must be reached and vaccinated" Fear of the wedding season he has opened. The Arab sector Photo:  Gideon Markowitz The outbreak of the corona virus in the Arab sector, and the sharp rise in morbidity in Arab society in Israel are kee


Concern in the Ministry of Health: Along with an increase in morbidity, the wedding season and the holiday next month will lead to catastrophe • "The Arab public must be reached and vaccinated"

  • Fear of the wedding season he has opened.

    The Arab sector

    Photo: 

    Gideon Markowitz

The outbreak of the corona virus in the Arab sector, and the sharp rise in morbidity in Arab society in Israel are keeping sleep out of senior Ministry of Health officials and heads of the Arab sector - in light of the fact that the wedding season in the Arab sector is expected to resume in mid-March. .

The growing concern about an unprecedented outbreak of the corona plague in Arab society stems from the fact that the rate of vaccinators in the Arab sector is significantly lower than the relative number of Arab citizens in the general public.

Despite campaigns in the Arabic language about the importance of getting vaccinated, especially among those who belong to risk groups such as the elderly and those with a background illness, the Arab public still does not flock en masse to the HMOs' vaccination centers.

As mentioned, there is a grave concern about the wedding season in Arab society in Israel, which is expected to resume in the coming days, and will reach its peak in early April, at the end of which the month of Ramadan will begin.

Recall, weddings in the Arab sector and family meals in the month of Ramadan were among the main causes of a severe outbreak of the corona plague in the Arab sector last year.

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In the Corona epidemic administration in Arab society much concern is from the British corona mutation, which is already known to infect more people in a shorter time.

In interviews given in recent days by the director of Galilee Hospital in Nahariya, Prof. Masad Barhum, he did not hide his growing concern about another severe outbreak of the corona virus in Arab society in light of the recently approved easing and renewal of the wedding season in the sector.

This time the British variant and the other mutations enter the equation. "

A senior official in the Corona administration for the Arab sector also told Israel Today that preparations for the possibility of another outbreak of corona in the Arab sector in Israel are not enough: "We see what is happening in East Jerusalem. The outbreak there is so severe that we allowed the Palestinian Authority to persuade residents The patients to get vaccinated. "

Immunization rates are low

The source adds that "the renewal of the wedding season is of great concern to us and also the month of Ramadan which will begin at the end of April.

"At the Corona Fighting Administration in Arab society, we are preparing for the wedding season and the month of Ramadan, which are just around the corner, but what is being done is not enough. We must get the Arab public to come and get vaccinated.

Source: israelhayom

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