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The condition for a quick release from the Corona hotels: those returning from red countries will be charged with locating the GSS | Israel Today

2021-12-01T10:06:02.109Z


The Ministry of Internal Security, together with the Israel Police, are preparing for the technological enforcement mission to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant. Simple for all of us "


As part of the state's response to the intrusion of the Omicron variant into Israel, the Israel Police is preparing to enforce the isolation of returnees from "red" countries.

All returnees from red states, will be charged in full isolation in a hotel on behalf of the state for 24 hours and will be able to be released subject to the presentation of a negative PCR test result and signing a consent to technological enforcement, the "agreement".

As part of the attempt to combat the spread of the disease, the Knesset Health Committee today (Wednesday) approved the aggravations that took effect this week in a home isolation order, including the obligation to isolate 72-hour returnees from abroad for vaccinated third vaccines and prohibit tourists from entering Israel. For the vaccinated, it is approved until December 12 only, or until it expires on December 7, if not extended, whichever is earlier.

The insulator's signature on the "agreement" contract is a mandatory condition for the termination of insulation in a hotel on behalf of the state and beyond the further insulation at the address and place specified by the insulator.

The terms of the agreement require the isolator to share his location using the mobile device in his possession at any given time requested by the Israel Police and subject to the approval of a text message requiring the sharing of the place, so the police can verify that the isolator stays at the isolation site.

Horowitz: "It seems that those who are vaccinated with a booster will be protected from the new variant" // Photo: Yaniv Zohar

An insulator who refuses the conditions of technological supervision and the details specified in the law, will be forced to stay in a motel on behalf of the state for all the days of isolation, on the instructions of a qualified representative.

At the same time, the Ministry of Internal Security, together with the Israel Police, are preparing for the technological enforcement task, in order to prevent the spread of the Omicron variant and to carry out the enforcement task of the insulators.

The chairman of the health committee, MK Idit Silman, said at the beginning of the discussion during which the restrictions were approved that "it is obvious that orders that have already entered into force have a difficult meaning for all of us, especially for businesses in certain areas. The decisions and explain to the public what it actually means. "

Ben Gurion Airport, Photo: Yossi Zeliger

Ilana Gens, head of the public health staff at the Ministry of Health, commented on the approved new restriction and explained: Beta and others - but there were between one and three mutations, and here 15 mutations in the same protein have been identified, this is critical for the antibodies our body produces. In South Africa this variant was detected in two weeks in 75% of all samples, it pushed the delta aside "Contagious, the number of verified there has increased sevenfold in two weeks and the mortality rate has increased fourfold. 64 countries have already reported the existence of the variant in their territory. This is a very worrying picture that indicates a very high potential for infection."

The head of the Ministry of Health's public health staff also noted that the Ministry of Health's follow-up "does not currently see severe morbidity among vaccinated people, but we still do not know exactly what the potential of vaccinated and recovering in this variant is." And recoverers returning from abroad, from all countries of the world. A negative test that is performed on the third day from the day of landing will release the insulator. "

Tali Laufer, CEO of the Association of Travel Agencies, commented on the newly approved restrictions and said: “I would like to ask that the finger that presses the trigger close the sky be much less easy.

I have not seen any proof that the difference between one or three days of isolation affects anything.

It does not help to deal with the variant and the blow it lands on the tourism industry is very severe because once there were only rumors about this order there was a crazy wave of cancellations and freezing of all future bookings.

"The economy in Israel is completely open and Ben Gurion Airport is closing. There is a crazy disproportion between the fear and the consequences. There is a complete killing of the tourism industry."

Knesset Health Committee, Photo: Danny Shem Tov, Knesset Spokeswoman

In response, Ilana Gens from the Ministry of Health explained that "we have seen in the past that people bring the common variants with them in the countries they come from. "Most of them within two or three days. Therefore, this is the continuum we have set."

Later in the discussion, the committee's chairman, MK Silman, asked the Ministry of Health to bring to the committee's approval any amendment to the home insulation order, including the easing of the order, unlike what was customary until now, when only the aggravations in the order were approved.

She said: "It is not fair to the public that when new models are brought in without being discussed in the Knesset, even if they are considered mitigating, they often involve significant changes and affect the entire system. We here in the Knesset need to ask questions, understand, discuss details so we can stand and explain The public has the things. "

A representative of the Ministry of Justice clarified that the ministry has no objection to parliamentary criticism, however to date the common interpretation of the Corona laws has been that mitigating amendments are not required for committee approval.

The committee's spokesman, Adv. Yael Salant, said in response: "The section stipulates that any amendment whose violation constitutes a criminal offense will be brought to the committee's approval and therefore an interpretation according to which only aggravation should reach approval is not acceptable to us."

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Source: israelhayom

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