The Jewish state may be on the brink of a month-long shutdown unless infections subside
Representatives of the United Arab Emirates and Israel will meet at the White House next week to signal a peace agreement between their countries, but this week these are national meetings, and the two countries face the accumulation of COVID-19 cases.
Israel police disrupted seven weddings on Tuesday night, the first night at 7:00 p. m. At 5:00 am. The curfew went into effect at 40 and neighborhoods were classified as red zones due to high infection rates.
“Our police put up barricades in and around the other spaces, patrolled and carried out activities in the spaces of the network and we entered and closed other rooms where real weddings were taking place. We imposed fines and arrested the theater owners, ”Micky Rosenfeld, foreign media spokesman for the Israel Police, told The Media Line.
But with more than 3,000 new cases reported in Israel in each of the two days after, and a peak number during the two weeks after, the country may be on the brink of a one-month national shutdown. Rosenfeld said that marriages in Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities, in which large numbers of others fail to comply with COVID precautions, were the main cause of the rise in infections.
Ministry of Health officials and hospital administrators held a Zoom assembly on Tuesday night discussing the option of implementing a national blockade to reduce morbidity rates.
“I am very concerned,” Professor Gili Regev-Yochai, head of the unit and infection prevention at Sheba Medical Center, told The Media Line. a lot of big gatherings and right now we are just before the [Jewish fall] holidays, which normally in a normal year is an era of mass gatherings in synapassgas and many family gatherings in a circle.
Tuesday’s 3,506 new infections raised the total number of cases in Israel to 138,179, with 29,532 active cases, 472 patients in severe condition and 140 with respirators, according to the Ministry of Health. A total of 1,048 people died from the new coronavirus in Israel. and 107,599 recovered.
I’m very worried. You see that the numbers happen and instead of closing things we still have weddings and many large meetings and right now we are just before the [Jewish autumn] festivities, which in a normal year is a period. Massive meetings in either sinapasses and masses of family reunion circles.
The UAE is also handling a backlog of coronavirus cases, but not to the point that Israel is treating. On Wednesday, the Gulf state recorded its highest peak of infections since May 27, with 883 new cases shown.
Daily infections have expanded in the United Arab Emirates since falling to 164 in early August.
Fitness officials in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday renewed a warning against social gatherings after a man with COVID-19 inflamed another forty-five, adding his wife and members of 3 families.
One of the man’s relatives, a 90-year-old man with underlying fitness problems, died of headaches after being admitted to an intensive care unit, a fitness official said.
“The recent backlog of new coronavirus cases is likely the result of a stable easing of movement restrictions and other coronavirus-related activities in recent weeks,” said Robert Mogielnicki, Resident Research Fellow at the Institute for Arab Gulf States in Washington. . Media line.
Mogielnicki cited the lifting of the national curfew this summer, a slow reopening of foreign visitors and schools opening the educational year as imaginable explanations.
On Wednesday, the total number of coronavirus cases in the United Arab Emirates 75,981, with 8,229 active cases, 393 deaths, and 67,359 cures, according to the Johns Hopkins coronavirus tracking.
“The precautionary symptoms are not flashing red at this time; the death rate from coronavirus in the country is very low and has not been higher since early May,” Mogielnicki added.
According to a report by the Deep Knowledge Group that rates two hundred countries and regions in terms of safety from the coronavirus pandemic, Israel and the United Arab Emirates are part of an elite company. Israel ranks third, behind only Switzerland and Germany, while the United Arab Emirates ranks 11th.
However, in the previous ranking, Israel ranks first. spread of infections and mortality rates.
“While Israel’s current scenario may be temporarily replaced given the recent evolution of those adjustments in the rate of spread of COVID-19, it wishes to be addressed in the form of adjustments to its foreclosure easing mandates and the economic recovery that reflect the truth of adaptation. of the pandemic within their own borders, ”says the report.
Rosenfeld puts pressure on The Media Line on the importance of night locks in all 40 red zones. Police teams were sent to cities and neighborhoods for the implementation of conditioning and protection measures, he said.
Regev-Yochai said she is not sure a national shutdown is necessary, but that anything else must be done to prevent the coronavirus from becoming uncontrollable in Israel.
“Even though there is a policy to close some things, it is said that nothing is closed,” he said. “So I’m not sure we want a general lockdown, but obviously [we want] much closer to any rally. Marriages are not allowed, prohibiting all kinds of meetings in closed rooms. Obviously, this will have to be prohibited.
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