Corona commissioner at cabinet meeting: “Extend closure until midnight Sunday”

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The government is currently discussing the continuation of the closure, after the meeting was postponed yesterday. Prime Minister Netanyahu warned at the beginning of the debate: “The morbidity in the country is very high, unfortunately there is only a moderate decrease in the difficult patients and therefore the distress and burden in the hospitals is very high.”

PM Netanyahu’s remarks at the beginning of the meeting. “The burden on hospitals is still high”

Corona’s commissioner, Prof. Nachman Ash, stated at the beginning of the hearing that his recommendation is to extend the validity of the closure restrictions until next Sunday, February 7, at midnight.

Defense Minister Ganz said regarding the question of removing the restrictions that “one should move from an accordion mode, to a train that has stations and a final destination – opening of all systems based on a green mark. Closure has ceased to be a work plan and a single solution.”

Netanyahu called on the public to continue to visit the vaccination complexes and stressed: “The vaccines are working. If you go to get vaccinated – we can gradually get out of the corona and open our economy carefully and responsibly. This is the order of the day.”

He added that the target set by the government is to vaccinate the population aged 50+ in the first dose, at a rate of 90% within two weeks. “This must be achieved, it is possible and I ask for the mobilization of all of you to bring in the people and get vaccinated. We have the option of doing something that no country in the world has,” Netanyahu noted.

Interior Minister Deri proposed giving local authorities powers in the vaccination campaign. “They should be given a list of those who have not been vaccinated,” Deri said. “They will do everything they know – and storm a house. A city that reaches 90% of vaccinations will be defined as ‘open’ in terms of traffic light layout. There should be the national effort.”

Remember, ahead of the discussion The Ministry of Health has taken a turn in its position: support for relief for residents of green and yellow cities. According to the proposal that is expected to be presented to the government by Health Minister Edelstein, in the green and yellow cities, it will be possible to open kindergartens, grades 1-2 and grades 11 and 12, along with takeaway services from restaurants, work without crowds and one-on-one services. In complementary medicine, or cosmetic treatments). It should be emphasized that at this stage most of the localities in the country are red, so the relief will not apply to them.

Apparently, the ministers will approve the return to the activities of the kindergartens, at least in part. The Ministry of Health agrees that the move is necessary, but still demands stricter conditions of the capsules than in the past. Agreements will be required with the Ministries of Education and Finance on this issue, in order to locate the budgetary source for the resumption of activities. It is also not yet clear whether the gardens will open on Sunday, as they are interested in blue and white, or only on Monday morning, according to Netanyahu and Edelstein.

“Open the B & Bs”

It should be noted that in blue and white they do not give up easily, and refuse Prime Minister Netanyahu and Edelstein’s demand to withdraw the closure until midnight on Sunday. Gantz is expected to present the government with an “exit plan” that includes a “green sign” within ten days. The program includes the immediate opening of takeaways, one-on-one services, B & Bs for nuclear families, the opening of nature reserves, professional and rehabilitative sports and the abolition of the distance from home.Gantz will also require starting next week on an education outline and opening jobs without receiving public and Trading in its purple daughter.

On the other hand, Edelstein and Netanyahu also insist on changing the opening patterns and not just on the timing, and want to open the gardens and the “one-on-one” treatments at a time that has not yet been set, as stated, next week.

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