People wear a mask when they buy food at a market in Jerusalem, Israel, on July 16, 2020.
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Israel took swift steps to oppose the coronavirus this spring: they quickly learned of the risk, closed the country’s borders, and implemented a national blockade.
This followed one of the lowest rates of COVID-1nine infection in the world. In early May, Israel saw only about 30 new cases per day in a country of approximately nine million people. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has necessarily declared victory in the country’s war against coronavirus.
“Israel is a successful war opposed to coronavirus is a style for many countries, and the world is watching us with admiration,” Netanyahu said proudly in uttering the lifting of maximum public restrictions in May. He then posted a video urging the Israelis to “go out, have fun.”
This pink symbol is another one today. Over the next two months, COVID-19 infections have increased in Israel. On Thursday, the country reported 1,929 new cases, a record since the virus arrived in Israel.
Experts say Israel has gone from a style for other nations to an uplifting narrative of what happens when countries reopen too temporarily and too temporarily.
“What has stopped working, of course, is that Israel did not build the mechanisms, the closure and after the closure, in order to combat small and medium-sized epidemics and prevent them from going nationally.”
“What has stopped working, of course, is that Israel did not build the mechanisms, the closure and after the closure, in order to fight small and medium-sized epidemics and prevent them from going nationally,” he said. Nadav Eyal, a leading foreign correspondent for Reshet News, an Israeli broadcaster. It was the loudest voice on social media to inform Israelis about the pandemic.
Unlike other countries in Europe or Asia, says Eyal, Israel has its restrictions at about the same time. With all the reopening of schools and wedding venues, as well as the public’s confidence that they succeeded in the virus, it’s only a matter of time before a momentary wave.
More than 4 months since Israel recorded its first case, Netanyahu has not yet been appointed to head the national working group on coronavirus. So far, he’s controlled it himself.
Despite the outbreak of coronavirus cases, Israeli health minister Yuli Edelstein warned Thursday that the country is only a few days away from a momentary closure. To avoid this, the government set up new restrictions on Friday that restrict industry and public gatherings.
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According to existing references, touch localization are two key steps to keep infection rates low. After a slow and volatile start, Israel is now one of the world leaders in line with capitaArray
“If you want the tests to be effective, you need to do so with tactile research, with an epidemiological approach, and it must be done very quickly,” Eyal said. “You can’t do one thing. You have to do everything you want to be effective. I’d say [Israel] with South Korea, and it ended up in Texas.”
Israel is known for its complex universal fitness care formula, which is not controlled by the government. And while it has helped keep the mortality rate low, Israel’s public contact-seeking formula is collapsing due to excessive labor and experience shortages. Today, it may take up to six days after verification for others to be notified if they have been infected.
Dr. Ilana Belmaker, former Director of Public Health for the Southern District of Israel, says Israel’s public aptitude formula is more of a regulatory framework and designed for a task of this magnitude.
“Public fitness is not designed or budgeted to do so,” said Belmaker, an associate professor of public fitness at Ben Gurion University in Be’er Sheva.
For example, Israel has entered this crisis with only 27 epidemiology nurses to conduct contact studies in the country. Since then, he has added a few hundred nurses to help him. But even now, they run tirelessly.
“They want help, ” said Belmaker. “They can’t do this for themselves. And as has happened, I think, even in the United States, national governments tend to, when they have all those competitive demands on their budgets, it’s simple to decrease fitness services.” “
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The recent increase in cases and a lack of public confidence in the way the crisis was treated has led to a sharp drop in Netanyahu’s approval rates to less than 40%.
But perhaps more than the fitness crisis, what is most of concern to Israelis is economic ruin. The national unemployment rate rose to 22%, after peaking at 28% in April. In mid-March, it was at an all-time low of 3.4%.
“People began to feel the pressure of the economic effects of the blockade.”
“People began to feel the pressure of the economic effects of the blockade,” Belmaker said. “I think we’ve reached 1 million more people in a few weeks, [who] are on unpaid leave or fired. It’s a massive economic impact.”
Last Saturday, thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv to ask for promised monetary aid through the government, albeit belatedly. Nine other people were arrested during the demonstration.
One organization affected by the pandemic is Israel’s 600,000 self-employed workers.
“For four months out of work, they only gave us $3,000 for April,” said Lilach Sapir, co-owner of a Tel Aviv bar called “Peacock.” “It’s the maximum. Most other people received part of it. It doesn’t look like anything.
Sapir had to close his bar on the first wave of coronavirus. Today, it trades at a loss only to remain open to its regular customers.
“You can’t pay your rent with that kind of money,” he says.
Sapir also has a place to eat in Berlin. There, he says, the government gave corporations a guarantee and pledged to cover workers’ wages.
“What’s here in Israel is that workers are sent to unemployment, they’re unemployed and the company itself has peanuts,” Sapir said. “Those of us who have had it have peanuts.”
This leads to bankruptcy, he added.
Sapir has since had one of the organizers of the events. He says they will continue to protest, with a transparent demand: “Money in the bank. No money on TV, no promises. Money in the bank.”
Eyal, the journalist, says the government’s inability to involve the virus and minimize its economic effects has made it unpopular.
“It’s the best storm,” he said. “You have an epidemic of wonderful proportions, and then you have a government that doesn’t look very good to meet people’s needs. And that creates a lot of mistrust.”
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