The worrying rise in coronavirus cases in Israel’s Chareidi sector continues, with about 2,800 Chareidim diagnosed with COVID-19 over Shabbos alone, almost half of the 6,004 new cases confirmed throughout the country. There are currently 48,701 active cases, with 739 seriously ill patients, of whom 177 are ventilated. The death toll has risen to 3,384.
Adv. Kabha Mu’awiya, who heads the Health Ministry’s search operations of ZAKA Israel and ZAKA Tel Aviv said: “Fifty teams worked around the clock over Shabbos throughout all the Chareidi cities and yishuvim. Reaching every verified patient over Shabbos sent over 10,000 people into quarantine and curbed the chain of infection.”
On Friday, the Health Ministry stated that another 18 cases of the British virus variant have been discovered in Israel. Most of the Israelis diagnosed with the variant haven’t traveled abroad recently, which means that they caught the virus in Israel and there are likely dozens or even hundreds of additional cases of the variant that have not yet been diagnosed.
Health officials believe that the virus variant is responsible for the sharp surge of cases in Chareidi communities in recent weeks. The 18 most recently diagnosed cases of the variant were found in Givat Zev, Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Beit Shemesh, Beitar Illit, Modiin Illit, Ramat Gan, Tiveria, and the Bedouin towns of Lakiya and Kuseife.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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“ISRAEL: 2800 Jews diagnosed with COVID-19 over Shabbos!”
There, I’ve fixed the headline for you!
Get off your “Charedi” arrogance!
Every JEWISH life matters, not just “Charedi” ones!
There is a very significant correlation to EMF radiation with Coronaviruses. Correlation with influenza and related viruses goes back even to telegraph signal infrastructure (by 1870 there were 700,000 miles of telegraph lines shown to show similar sicknesses and even epidemics and pandemics from this and similar technologies). The documented history of ‘radio wave sickness’ exists for about 200 years. 5G towers, satellites, cellphone and wi-fi usage are historically unprecedented and have been attributed by many researchers around the globe to be a major culprit and causation in Covid.
Incidently, and for obvious reasons based on such understanding, this problem has little justification for vaccine implementation–but it just justify public outcry over 5G and other dangerous telecom radiation-based ‘roll-outs’ and use of wi-fi unnecessarily by children and in schools for instance.
@Kach: You’re really wierd. The mention of chareidim was due to the fact that they were being singled out as a demographic with particularly high transmission. By singling them out, YWN may have meant to altruistically warn chareidi readers, to stoke anti-chareidi sentiment, or to engender any other positive or negative result. There is no reason, however, to assume that they singled out chareidim because they only care about them as opposed to other Jews. You need to do some severe introspection regarding your embarrassing sensitivity to harmless statements. And, by the way, I’m no supporter of YWN’s articles, just saying.
yashar care to explain in English
lesson of the day: Israeli numbers mean zilch
@R R R: lol