The Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, continued tonight (Saturday) to hold talks with the heads of the pharmaceutical and vaccine companies to allow the operation to continue. During the next week, Netanyahu will hold a discussion on the issue Tight and short closure, Which will allow a rapid opening of the economy.
Here 11 it was reported that Netanyahu’s proposal to close the education system does not usually win in the Corona cabinet. Defense Minister Bnei Gantz said “education should be the last to be harmed.”
Meanwhile, against the background of the fear of a shortage of vaccines – currently the HMOs have made appointments about three weeks ahead, assuming that additional vaccines are received. Due to the fact that such vaccines have not yet been received or at least information about them – Some HMOs do intend to postpone some of the appointments.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives the vaccine for Corona (Photo: TPS)
As mentioned, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, said in a press briefing on Thursday: “We are following the increase in all its indicators and we are planning additional steps that we may need to take in order to reduce the morbidity, including aggravation “The workers, we are examining the condition of the disease and preparing these steps for submission if we have to.”
He reiterated: “If we continue at this rate of morbidity and fail to reduce it, we will double the number of serious patients, and reach insufficiency and mortality, so we think we may need to impose more restrictions. We will wait some more time to see the effects of this closure.”
In addition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein arrived last night at the corona vaccine complex in Umm al-Fahm, in order to meet with the country’s millionth vaccinator. During the visit, they also met with the director of the vaccination center and with the mayor, who called on all residents to come and get vaccinated, and asked Netanyahu to take care of violence in Arab society and infrastructure in the villages.
“This is great excitement, we are breaking all records, we have brought millions of vaccines to Israel, we have advanced the whole world and now we are ahead of them with our excellent HMOs, we are moving forward with tremendous speed to vaccinate the entire population. That is saving lives, “Netanyahu said in his opening remarks.
When asked if there is an intention to ease the quarantine following the vaccines, he replied that if we open the quarantine the problem will be exactly the opposite. “If the disease rages, it will be difficult for us to stop the deaths of the people and it is much better for us to do a few days of close closure, lower the disease and eradicate it with the vaccines.”