There’s been a 78% increase in the number of new coronavirus cases in the Charedi sector in Israel in the past week, according to data presented by Prof. Eran Segal of Weizmann Institute on Tuesday.
The majority of Chareidi neighborhoods in Jerusalem are now “red zones,” with Sanhedria, Maalot Dafna and Bayit Vegan the most recent additions to the list, joining Neve Yaakov, Ramot, Pisgat Zeev, Romema and Har Nof.
The neighborhoods of Ramat Shlomo, Givat Shaul, Mekor Baruch, Geulah, Zichron Moshe, the Old City, and Kiryat Menachem are “orange zones,” and according to the Health Ministry, they are likely to be declared “red zones” within a few days.
Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health at the Health Ministry, told Kan News on Tuesday that 55% of Israel’s population is currently in red or orange zones. “We’re a week or ten days away from imposing far stricter restrictions,” she said.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Romema has been a red zone ever since
The zones are obviously not imposed according to numbers, well- welcome to israel
“We’re a week or ten days away from imposing far stricter restrictions,” Well how about making בית-לחם a red zone in a week rather than in 10 days:- Let’s see if you have the guts to do saw before their xmas midnite celebration there, like you did before פסח and again תשרי.
What do they mean by “new cases”??
Do they mean people with serious symptoms, or people that just happen to sneeze, or do they mean people that tested positive to some test with no symptoms at all?
How significant are these tests?
How many people died in Israel during the past eight months and how many died during the same period of the previous year.
Could someone please publish these very relevant statistics?
If there was no significant increase then what we have is not a corona pandemic but a hysteria pandemic.
Why don’t the authorities publish this very important information so that the public can be aware of the true situation?
Are they hiding something?
how many households are infected?
Since it virtually impossible to avoid infecting poeple in that household surely the numbers should be worked out by how households?