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Following the new corona variety that arrived in Israel: most African countries will be defined as red

The Prime Minister has decided that the entry of foreigners into Israel from these countries will be banned and that everyone who has been in Africa for the past week will be instructed to remain in isolation until the result of a PCR test.

Bennett and Horowitz will immediately make statements to the media, the Corona Cabinet will convene on Saturday evening, the ministers will soon participate in an update call

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Meirav Cohen

Friday, 26 November 2021, 14:25 Updated: 14:44

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Statements by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health

The government decided today (Friday) that African countries, with the exception of the countries of the north of the continent, will be defined as red and the entry of foreigners from them will be banned.

This follows three cases of the South African variant in Israel.

Immediately, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz will enter a press conference on the subject.

It was also decided that the Home Front Command would locate all Israelis and tourists who came from Africa in the past week, and instruct them to remain in isolation immediately, while at the same time conducting home sampling.

Anyone who has stayed in African countries, even if he did not come to Israel directly from it, will be called to immediately undergo a PCR test, after which he will go into isolation until a result is obtained.

At the same time, Israel will purchase 10 million PCR kits tailored to identify the new variant.

In about two weeks, air filters will be installed in hundreds of classrooms and in 100 kindergartens, as part of a new pilot.

In addition, the sewer sampling procedure throughout the country will be accelerated, in order to detect latent morbidity in the new variant.

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Following the three verifications for the new strain and the fear that other people in Israel became infected, the Ministry of Health asked Bennett to tighten the restrictions at Ben Gurion Airport and apply an additional inspection obligation to all returnees from abroad, on the third day of their return. During the discussion, the possibilities of closing Ben Gurion Airport completely or only to foreigners as well as closing the schools to encourage immunization also came up. The ministers did not make a decision, and on Saturday evening the Corona cabinet will convene. .

earlier, warned Dr. Zeev Feldman, chairman of the state's physicians because corona South African strain: "We must not repeat the mistake variant delta wave brought us the fourth most deadly and difficult. The fifth wave is already here, and everything must be done to minimize its damage. "

"It comes a moment before winter, with the onset of the flu that we do not yet know where it will develop, so the health care system needs to be prepared right now and allocated all the resources needed to deal with a double wave of illness," he added.

"At the same time, we need to return to the basic rules - masking, distance and hygiene, and of course current vaccines. Our conduct at Hanukkah should be reconsidered, especially of those who belong to groups at risk of serious illness."

Will the guidelines be tightened?

Ben Gurion Airport (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Meanwhile, the epidemiological investigation conducted by the Ministry of Health for infection with the new strain revealed that there was a fear that one of them escaped isolation after returning from abroad. The Ministry of Health ordered an ambulance, but she disappeared.

the Ministry of health approached the police and asked to locate her. after evaluating the special situation in the district commander commander Finchi Moses, Eilat police located her and handed her over to the Ministry of health, conducted her tests and will forward it to the ambulance isolation.

This morning, the Ministry of health announced that variety originating from south Africa was discovered in Israel by a woman who returned from Malawi, a country that is not on the list of red countries. In addition, he reported suspicion of two more cases of returning from abroad.

Later, it turned out that these are three women, one of whom has not yet been paved and is therefore not authenticated for the new breed.

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