“This is a difficult decision but it is essential to maintaining public health, which takes precedence over everything,” Netanyahu said.
By: WIN Staff
“After a day of complex discussions, we have made a decision: Whoever arrives in Israel from abroad will enter quarantine for 14 days,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Monday evening after chairing a series of discussions on the coronavirus at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem.
Among the topics discussed, with the participation of experts, were the policy regarding people entering Israel from overseas, economic preparations and scientific-technological issues.
“This is a difficult decision but it is essential to maintaining public health, which takes precedence over everything,” the prime minister stated.
“This decision will be in effect for two weeks. At the same time, we will make decisions to safeguard the Israeli economy.”
All non-Israelis will have to prove they have where to stay while quarantined; otherwise they will be denied entry.
Participating in the discussions were Health Minister Yaakov Litzman, Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, Economy and Industry Minister Eli Cohen, Tourism Minister Yariv Levin, Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich, Agriculture Minister Tzachi Hanegbi, Labor, Social Affairs and Social Services Minister Ofir Akunis, the director generals of the relevant government ministries, Defense Ministry officials, the Director of the Biological Institute, the Science and Technology Ministry Chief Scientist, the Director of the Economy and Industry Ministry Innovation Authority and other officials.
Prior to the meeting, the Health Ministry confirmed that three more Israelis were diagnosed with COV-19, bringing the number to 42.
On Friday evening, the Israeli Health Ministry released the details concerning a French national who was vacationing in Israel and contracted the novel Coronavirus.
The Jerusalem Post reported that the man spent most of his time with relatives and is currently already back in France, having flown there on Monday.
The man arrived in the country on Sunday and spent one day in it. He arrived at one p.m. on Transavia flight number 3930 and took the one twenty p.m. train from the airport to the central bus station in Jerusalem.
He attended a family event that evening from eight p.m. to eleven p.m. at Ramban synagogue on Amatzia street in Jerusalem.
The next day he was at Hillel coffee shop at Beit HaKerem from ten thirty a.m. to noon and at half past noon he took the train from the central bus station to the airport and returned to France on Transavia flight 3933 at one p.m.
All those who were aboard the flight or spent time in any of these places while the man was there must enter home quarantine and notify the Health Ministry.
Should they experience high temperature and difficulty breathing they should dial emergency number 101.
(World Israel News & JPost)
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