The fight in Corona:
A senior source in the Home Front Command announced that a very large operation by the Home Front Command will begin in Israel next week, together with the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Education.
Alon Headquarters, Archive, Photo: Oren Cohen
The army will be the one to lead the tests together with the local authorities and the government ministries, with the intention of reaching as large a number of students as possible.
Ahead of the operation, a military source who spoke about it said that "our initial assessment is that in the coming weeks we will see a continuous increase in infection graphs, when next Tuesday we will reach 12,000 or more carriers who are discovered every day as well as 700 seriously ill patients."
"It is important to note," the military source emphasizes, "that there are still some reasons for optimism, namely that the coefficient of infection has dropped from 1.3 to 1.25 and therefore the doubling rate is 14 days instead of 10 days. The public takes care of itself and the booster also helps. "
It should be noted that since this is a very large operation, it was decided that the Home Front Command, through the Alon headquarters, would carry it out with a staff of 1,400 teams that would conduct the tests, with each team having a medic, a registrar and a commander.
The military source says that "there was a discussion about who will conduct the tests, but it was decided not to burden the health funds that store and conduct regular corona tests. Therefore, the army, which knows how to work in large masses, will operate and the army plans to complete the operation within two weeks "We estimate that 70 percent of the students will test and in most of the authorities the tests will be in the schools. The authorities are very concerned and there will be national publications and publications adapted to each authority and the entire system is synchronized to that."
The rapid test operation is underway: "We have joined the national effort to fight the corona plague" // Photo: Gil Kramer
"We also have an app that will transfer information and make percentages in every city and every district. "Very much of the public. I was in Beit Shemesh and saw how the whole system and the parents want in these tests," said the senior military official from the IDF.
Amputation of the adhesive chains
When the military source was required to address the infection chains, the military source said that FKAR reaches 53 percent of patients, but these are risk groups so it is a great achievement. We reach everyone who returns from abroad. In these groups we arrive quickly and this is what we think, because these are the people at risk of harming people their age or these are the people who bring new strains into the country. That's why we focus. We don't get to it quickly, but we have to understand that in the reality of so much infection, we are in a very good condition. "
Prime Minister Bennett and Defense Minister Ganz at the Alon headquarters, IDF Spokesman
The State of Israel also stated, "There is also a good ability to reach people who were infected by the first people, but it is clear that we do not reach everyone. We should also know that the State of Israel has a testing capacity of 130,000 people per day. Quick home testing kits help us ease the load a bit. "
The Delta strain dominates the country
Regarding the fear of new strains, the source says that "at the moment there is no information about a more violent strain than we already know and we do not have information about the new strains that are more violent. In any case, 98.7 percent of all patients in the country are infected with the Delta strain. In any case, we are constantly doing genetic flooring for patients returning from abroad and for seriously ill patients, in order to see if there is a new strain that threatens us.
In general, we need to know that the Corona is here for a long time and we are going on a long campaign. "
The source summed up his remarks and said that "the operation of the Alon headquarters is intended to allow the Israeli public to live near the virus. Once a parent knows that his child is healthy he can go to work and the child has a green mark, it will reduce the amount of aggressive isolation in classrooms. Therefore, the army will enter the operation at the peak of the operation right from the beginning of next week, it is not that we will flood the cities with soldiers but we will get everywhere. We know how many children there are in each city The journey is out of acquaintance with its public. In my opinion it is a state of victory in any case, because it is to know whether your child is healthy or not, so there is no opposition from any part of the public in Israel. Of the organization of the operation in preparation for the departure to the field. "
