RE: Novacyt . Fill your boots !25 Jun 2021 16:24
Text it's regarding Israel
Lthe end of the compulsory wearing of a mask in closed places less than a fortnight ago was the final signal for the return to freedom. And the Israelis believed in it: over, the pandemic and its nightmares . But patatras! The contaminations curve panics again, passing, in the space of seventy-two hours, from around forty positive cases to more than 110 per day. Active cases or contacts, some vaccinated others not, are sent to quarantine. Among them, a lot of young people, parents or teachers. In the media, it is the big comeback, in prime time, of public health officials, experts, epidemiologists, virologists ...
Despite a record vaccination rate - more than 5 million out of 9 million people received the two doses of Pfizer - the Covid, and more specifically the "Delta" variant, which appeared in India , has transformed neighborhoods in three cities of the country into clusters. country: Binyamina in the north, Modiin in the west of Jerusalem and Netanya on the coastal road. Positive cases have also been detected in schools and kindergartens in other towns in the center of the country.
Faced with this, Naftali Bennett, the new prime minister , did not wait and called on the Israelis to travel abroad only if necessary. Referring to the new outbreak of Covid in Binyamina, he stressed that the tracing had made it possible to trace the source of the contamination: a family who had just returned from Cyprus . According to Hezy Levy, the director general of the Ministry of Health , "most of the new cases are linked to clear chains of infection, some of which started with Israelis returning from abroad who did not adhere to quarantine. ".
An indiscipline which provokes the anger of the inhabitants of the cities which passed, according to the color code in force, from green to yellow, that is to say a serious contamination. Nitzan Horowitz, the new Minister of Health, has announced a sharp increase in fines for those who fail to comply with isolation measures. As for the Israelis who would go to countries now banned - Russia , India, South Africa, Brazil and Argentina - it could cost them 5,000 shekels (1,283 euros). At the airport, during check-in, travelers will now have to sign a document stating that they will not travel to these countries where the pandemic is wreaking havoc.
Faced with this, Naftali Bennett, the new prime minister , did not wait and called on the Israelis to travel abroad only if necessary. Referring to the new outbreak of Covid in Binyamina, he stressed that the tracing had made it possible to trace the source of the contamination: a family who had just returned from Cyprus . According to Hezy Levy, the director general of the Ministry of Health , "most of the new cases are linked to clear chains of infection, some of which started with Israelis returning from abroad who did not adhere to quarantine. ".
An indiscipline which provokes the anger of the inhabitants of the cities which pass
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