The Ministry of Health recommends: extend the closure for another week

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The Ministry of Health this evening (Monday) recommended to Prime Minister Netanyahu that he extend the closure for another week, due to data on the morbidity and various mutations in the corona virus. The closure is currently scheduled to end at midnight between Sunday and Monday (January 31-February 1).

A senior health ministry official explained the recommendation: “The rise (in morbidity – MI) was rapid, and the decline is unfortunately slow due to the mutations.” Netanyahu participated in a discussion with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, the head of the National Security Council, the director general of the Ministry of Health, the Corona projector and other senior officials.

Corona Commissioner Prof. Ash: “This may not be the last closure” // Photo: GPO

“It is delusional to leave the quarantine under these conditions,” the health ministries said. The Netanyahu bureau said: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a discussion with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, head of the National Security Council, the director general of the Ministry of Health, the Corona project and other senior officials. From quarantine and other issues.

“Senior Ministry of Health officials have expressed concern that even at the current date of the closure we will be left with a high level of morbidity and a very heavy load of critically ill patients in the hospitals. It was agreed that consultations will continue tomorrow.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu's discussion with senior Ministry of Health officials tonight
At midnight Ben Gurion Airport is expected to close hermetically at least until the end of the closure, which was originally planned to cross between Sunday and Monday.

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