According to the Ministry of Health, 51 percent (4.5 million) of Israel’s residents are in orange and red cities. “This list determines the issue of opening the education system in the twelfth to twelfth grades, starting tomorrow (Tuesday, December 29), subject to the approval of the list by the Cabinet,” it was reported.
More according to the announcement, in the current classification There are a number of authorities with over 200,000 residents whose color is orange / red and were divided into neighborhoods – Jerusalem, Haifa and Ashdod (Tel Aviv with a high yellow score but is not orange and therefore not divided into neighborhoods). “In light of the change in schedules this classification will apply until the end of the week. During this Wednesday or Thursday we will make another cut to set the traffic light for next week.”
Among the cities that have become Red – Elad, Bnei Brak, Beit Shemesh, Safed, Nazareth, Netivot, Migdal Haemek, Modi’in Illit, Tiberias, Netivot and Arad. In the list The oranges Appearing include Ariel, Umm al-Fahm, Beit She’an, Gedera, Herzliya, Hadera, Taibeh, Tira, Tirat Carmel, Yehud, Yeruham, Yarka, Carmiel, Lod, Modi’in-Maccabim-Re’ut, Nof Hagalil, Nahariya, Ness Ziona, Sakhnin, Acre, Afula, Kiryat Gat, Kiryat Malachi, Kiryat Shmona, Rosh HaAyin, Rahat and Shefar’am.
The Home Front Command map showing the colors of the traffic light should be updated every Thursday. About three weeks ago, the Corona Cabinet decided that the opening of the education system for the age groups from fifth to twelfth grade will take place in accordance with the colors of the traffic light, so that these layers can only be opened in green and yellow localities.
An authority defined as green or yellow on Thursday can open these layers on the following Sunday for a week, while an authority defined as orange or red cannot open for a week. During this period, if the authority changes its color, there will be no change in the guidelines except in exceptional cases of outbreak of disease.
However, in view of the recent decisions regarding the closure, on Thursday the map was not updated, and until this morning the division determined 11 days ago remained in force. Now, the new division has been announced.
Corona’s professor, Prof. Nachman Ash, said last night that “it is not possible to sustain the education system in such fluctuations and therefore it has been determined that there is a determining day and it determines the studies a week later. I do not think it affects morbidity significantly. To the outbreak of the disease and what led us to closure.
Prof. Ash added that “there are many other factors that affect the jump in morbidity. To the extent that it is decided, if it is decided, that studies during the closure period are determined by the color of the cities, we will have to set a new date and set a new color.”