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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein attend the arrival of a DHL plane carrying a first batch of Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines, at Ben-Gurion International Airport, near Tel Aviv, Israel, Dec. 9, 2020. Photo: Abir Sultan / Pool via Reuters.
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Health officials back reopening schools in green and yellow cities
Health Ministry set to present the cabinet with an outline, recommending reopening of businesses working in a one-on-one format, takeaway services; reopening education system only in areas with low virus rates, leaves out most big cities
Itamar Eichner |
Published: 02.03.21 , 18:29
Health official set to recommend to the cabinet to reopen schools only in green and yellow communities, indication low coronavirus infection rate, which would leave out most big cities in the country.
The government is set to convene on Wednesday evening to discuss the extension of the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, set to end Friday 7am, until next week.
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Despite an extensive vaccination campaign, coronavirus cases in Israel remain high and show little sign of decreasing. Israel is in the midst of a third nationwide lockdown, and has halted inbound and outbound flights and closed down its overland border crossings. 5,001 Israelis have died so far of the virus.
Meanwhile, Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip await vaccines, though it may take at least a few more months for their campaigns to reach enough members of the population. 1,516 people have died so far in the West Bank, while 526 have died in Gaza.
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Medical teams team wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward of Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospitall in Jerusalem on February 1, 2021(. Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
A military task force advising the Health Ministry cautioned Tuesday that coronavirus infection may be on the rise again, even after a month of lockdown, as a health official said the current closure may not be Israel’s last.
“Morbidity is continuing at very high rates, and it is possible that it is starting to rise again,” the IDF Military Intelligence Directorate task force wrote in a report. It noted that the weeks of lockdown have yet to cause a drop in the test positivity rate or in the number of serious patients.