Tonight (Monday), Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived at a branch of the United Health Fund in Beit Shemesh in order to encourage the ultra-Orthodox public to receive the vaccine against the corona virus. Netanyahu referred to the possibility that the closure would be extended and said: “Tomorrow we will hold a cabinet meeting on the Corona issue. The mutation is raging in the world and some countries are talking about a closure until April. This is not the case with us, but We may need another limited short period of closure and will need your support. It can not be more than two weeks, it is limited in the first place. “
Netanyahu noted that the immediate goal is to increase the percentage of vaccinated among the Arab and ultra-Orthodox public. “To win we need public cooperation,” he said.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visits Beit Shemesh
In addition, the Prime Minister commented on criticism of the government’s conduct and clarified: “Differential closure does not work and has not worked in the name of a place, except Australia which is a very large country. Increased enforcement, closure and vaccines are the things that work. We are already seeing a decline in the spread.”
Netanyahu claimed that he had talked to leaders of countries around the world who congratulated Israel on the success of the vaccination campaign and the public’s commitment to accepting them. “At the leaders’ conference, I proposed that Israel lead the establishment of an international corporation for the research and production of vaccines for viruses and future epidemics – enthusiastic enthusiasm was recorded from wall to wall,” he added.
Netanyahu also referred to the issue of “importing” the morbidity of returnees to Israel at Ben Gurion Airport and said: “Last night I had a discussion with the ministers of health and transportation. I immediately ordered corona inspections to be promoted to everyone entering Israel and further tightening of flights entering and leaving Israel. “
Also the Minister of Health July Edelstein Carried things out and called on everyone in the priority group to approach to get the vaccine. Edelstein also clarified that the Ministry of Health will demand an extension of the closure for another week.
“Vaccines are taking us to a good place. At the same time, we have climbed in the critically ill, also in the corona wards. We will come to the government tomorrow and ask for an extension of the quarantine. I have no choice. I hope it will be approved, because we all understand the situation. “1,100 critically ill patients in hospitals. We need to treat it, move forward with vaccines and reach a different reality of opening up the economy, culture, synagogues, and education system. Then we will be with the help of God the first country in the world that says, ‘We came back to real life, we came back to life.’
Meanwhile, the corona in charge of the ultra-Orthodox sector, Maj. Gen. (Res.) Roni Noma, He also referred to the state of the disease and said today in a briefing he gave to the media: “There are educational frameworks that are open in the ultra-Orthodox sector. But it must be said honestly: the majority is closed. And what is opened is opened in a different format. ‘
Noma referred to the great difficulty and said that “10-15% of the ultra-Orthodox educational institutions are open. The pressure from the government to close the educational institutions is great, and the internal pressure to open is great as well. Hopefully, despite the great difficulty, the system will remain closed.” Noma feared that a decision to extend the closure would only increase the pressure on the ultra-Orthodox public to open educational institutions.
In addition, the project manager in the ultra-Orthodox sector surveyed the disease and said: “1,661 ultra-Orthodox patients were added yesterday, the average ultra-Orthodox patient this week is about 34% of all patients. 22.1% of tests in the ultra-Orthodox sector are positive and about 11% of hospitalized ultra-Orthodox.” Along with these things, Noma clarified that he estimates that in the coming days a stabilization in morbidity among the ultra-Orthodox is expected.
Later, Noma said that many ultra-Orthodox women are afraid to take the vaccine due to the fear of harm to fertility. On this he said that “For the avoidance of doubt There is no risk in the vaccine for women of childbearing age – This is also the position of the experts, gynecologists and gynecologists in Israel and around the world, and therefore the Ministry of Health also allows vaccination for pregnant women from among the teaching staff. The false rumors spread by irresponsible parties are the ones that cause the challenge I talked about among young women. “