6 apr 2020
Israeli authorities claimed that 'certain conditions' need to be available to test anyone.
Israeli Kan channel reported that the occupation state rejected a Palestinian request to test all Palestinian workers inside the Greenline before sending them back to the West Bank.
The International Relations Officer in the Israeli Ministry of Health told the Israeli channel that the PLO has sent an unofficial request to the occupation state to test Palestinian workers.
The Israeli authorities, according to Kan, rejected the request, claiming that the occupation state doesn’t have enough testing kits for the workers and that there are certain conditions that need to be available to test anyone.
The Israeli Ministry of Health has stated that two factories in occupied Jerusalem were closed after detecting several COVID-19 infections among Palestinians working in them. All Palestinian workers were sent back to the West Bank.
Israeli Kan channel reported that the occupation state rejected a Palestinian request to test all Palestinian workers inside the Greenline before sending them back to the West Bank.
The International Relations Officer in the Israeli Ministry of Health told the Israeli channel that the PLO has sent an unofficial request to the occupation state to test Palestinian workers.
The Israeli authorities, according to Kan, rejected the request, claiming that the occupation state doesn’t have enough testing kits for the workers and that there are certain conditions that need to be available to test anyone.
The Israeli Ministry of Health has stated that two factories in occupied Jerusalem were closed after detecting several COVID-19 infections among Palestinians working in them. All Palestinian workers were sent back to the West Bank.
Israeli soldiers today dumped contaminated trash and spat on doors of vehicles and homes in the southern West Bank town of Beit Ummar at a time the Palestinians are trying to fight the spread of the deadly coronavirus pandemic, according to local activist Muhammad Awad.
He told WAFA that a large army force broke into a section of Beit Ummar located near the illegal settlement bloc of Gush Etzion and threw glares contaminated with an unknown substance, as well as trash, needles and used gloves between village homes.
The soldiers also spat on the doors of vehicles and homes, and insulted residents using racist terms, he said, raising concern that the soldiers intentionally want to spread coronavirus among the Palestinian civilians of that area.
The soldiers did the same near the house of freed prisoner, Fida Ikhlil, in the town where they spat at and insulted people in that area.
After the soldiers had left the town, local volunteers of Beit Ummar Emergency Committee sterilized the two areas and destroyed and burnt all the materials that the soldiers had thrown.
He told WAFA that a large army force broke into a section of Beit Ummar located near the illegal settlement bloc of Gush Etzion and threw glares contaminated with an unknown substance, as well as trash, needles and used gloves between village homes.
The soldiers also spat on the doors of vehicles and homes, and insulted residents using racist terms, he said, raising concern that the soldiers intentionally want to spread coronavirus among the Palestinian civilians of that area.
The soldiers did the same near the house of freed prisoner, Fida Ikhlil, in the town where they spat at and insulted people in that area.
After the soldiers had left the town, local volunteers of Beit Ummar Emergency Committee sterilized the two areas and destroyed and burnt all the materials that the soldiers had thrown.
140 people are in serious condition with 109 on ventilators, while 670 people have overcome the disease; health experts say slowing increase in diagnoses is a cause for optimism
Israel now has 8,904 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 58 people have succumbed to the disease, the Health Ministry said Monday night.
Of that number, 140 people are in serious condition, including 109 patients on ventilators. The number of people on ventilators has remained unchanged since Saturday.
Israel's coronavirus death toll up to 56, with 8,649 confirmed cases
Health Ministry says five people have succumbed to COVID-19 since Monday morning, including a woman who became the seventh resident of Be'er Sheva nursing home to die of virus
As of Monday afternoon, 56 people have died in Israel from complications related to coronavirus.
The Health Ministry earlier reported the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Israel currently stands at 8,649. Health authorities said there has been a rise of 760 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours.
Israel's coronavirus death toll up to 51, with 8,611 confirmed cases
The Health Ministry says there has been a rise of 760 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, with an 11% jump in the number of COVID-19 patients in serious condition; 3 people have died at Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in past 24 hours
Another two people have died from complications related to coronavirus, bringing the country's death toll to 51, health officials said Monday.
The Health Ministry added the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Israel currently stands at 8,611.
Health authorities said there has been a rise of 760 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours.
Of the latest number, 141 people are in serious condition, including 107 patients on ventilators, the number represents an 11 percent jump over the past 24 hours.
Some 191people remain in moderate condition. Another 7,643 people have mild symptoms and 585 have made a full recovery.
Hospitals are treating 763 patients, while 5,279 people are fighting the virus at home. Another 875 people are currently in specially designated hotels and 1,058 are awaiting a decision on whether they will be treated.
Israel now has 8,904 confirmed cases of coronavirus and 58 people have succumbed to the disease, the Health Ministry said Monday night.
Of that number, 140 people are in serious condition, including 109 patients on ventilators. The number of people on ventilators has remained unchanged since Saturday.
Israel's coronavirus death toll up to 56, with 8,649 confirmed cases
Health Ministry says five people have succumbed to COVID-19 since Monday morning, including a woman who became the seventh resident of Be'er Sheva nursing home to die of virus
As of Monday afternoon, 56 people have died in Israel from complications related to coronavirus.
The Health Ministry earlier reported the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Israel currently stands at 8,649. Health authorities said there has been a rise of 760 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours.
Israel's coronavirus death toll up to 51, with 8,611 confirmed cases
The Health Ministry says there has been a rise of 760 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, with an 11% jump in the number of COVID-19 patients in serious condition; 3 people have died at Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center in past 24 hours
Another two people have died from complications related to coronavirus, bringing the country's death toll to 51, health officials said Monday.
The Health Ministry added the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Israel currently stands at 8,611.
Health authorities said there has been a rise of 760 confirmed cases in the past 24 hours.
Of the latest number, 141 people are in serious condition, including 107 patients on ventilators, the number represents an 11 percent jump over the past 24 hours.
Some 191people remain in moderate condition. Another 7,643 people have mild symptoms and 585 have made a full recovery.
Hospitals are treating 763 patients, while 5,279 people are fighting the virus at home. Another 875 people are currently in specially designated hotels and 1,058 are awaiting a decision on whether they will be treated.
5 apr 2020
Officials warn a shortage of testing will leave decision-makers in the dark about measures needed to curb the spread of virus, while subjecting medical teams and patients in hospitals to unnecessary risk
The number of tests for coronavirus is expected to decrease substantially due to a worldwide shortage of material needed to analyze samples, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming 15,000 tests would be conducted daily from this week.
After coming under fire for adopting a policy of testing only people presenting COVID-19 symptoms or those who had come into contact with confirmed patients, the Health Ministry increased the number of daily tests.
But now the shortage of a key reagent (a substance that causes a chemical reaction), is bringing the number of tests down again and is expected to drop further.
Meanwhile, a Health Ministry official said Saturday that Israel was wrong to assume that a two-week quarantine for anyone entering the country would stop the spread of the virus.
He said such a policy put 100,000 people in isolation and caused immeasurable damage to the economy, but still left the ministry unable to identify clusters of infection before they caused further spread of the virus.
Another official also said the ministry was wrong not to carry out blanket tests of the general public, which resulted in a critical loss of time when fighting the virus.
This choice, he said, "left decision-makers in the dark without the ability to detect where stricter measures should be applied."
He said: "Israel is behind in the worldwide efforts to obtain the necessary supplies and is reverting to its earlier erroneous policy of limiting the number of tests. We do not have the information we need and are not taking the steps we should be taking to stop the spread of the disease."
The official warned that medical teams would be at risk if they were unable to identify COVID-19 cases that arrived in emergency rooms. Other patients who were at greater risk from the virus would so be compromised.
The Health Ministry has failed to conduct the 10,000 tests per day promised by Netanyahu; his assurance that that number would grow to 30,000 tests per day seems unlikely.
On Thursday, 7,294 people were tested, down from 7,833 the day before. No data on the number of tests has been made available since.
According to Israeli media reports, the Health Ministry has moved to block testing technology developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science that would allow tens of thousands of samples to be analyzed per day. According to the reports, requests for an explanation for this have gone unanswered by the ministry.
The Health Ministry criteria for testing has been disregarded by some, including Hadassah Medical Center CEO Prof. Zeev Rotstein who tested his entire staff across both Hadassah campuses twice within five days, detecting 30 carriers of the coronavirus who were then isolated to prevent further spread.
The Health Ministry insists, however, that despite a world-wide shortage of materials, with a spokesman claiming that Israel is "still testing more than many other countries."
He expressed the hope that the shortage of reagent would be resolved by Monday, adding that the ministry was set to finalize a contract with a Chinese company for technology to analyze 30,000 tests a day.
The number of tests for coronavirus is expected to decrease substantially due to a worldwide shortage of material needed to analyze samples, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu claiming 15,000 tests would be conducted daily from this week.
After coming under fire for adopting a policy of testing only people presenting COVID-19 symptoms or those who had come into contact with confirmed patients, the Health Ministry increased the number of daily tests.
But now the shortage of a key reagent (a substance that causes a chemical reaction), is bringing the number of tests down again and is expected to drop further.
Meanwhile, a Health Ministry official said Saturday that Israel was wrong to assume that a two-week quarantine for anyone entering the country would stop the spread of the virus.
He said such a policy put 100,000 people in isolation and caused immeasurable damage to the economy, but still left the ministry unable to identify clusters of infection before they caused further spread of the virus.
Another official also said the ministry was wrong not to carry out blanket tests of the general public, which resulted in a critical loss of time when fighting the virus.
This choice, he said, "left decision-makers in the dark without the ability to detect where stricter measures should be applied."
He said: "Israel is behind in the worldwide efforts to obtain the necessary supplies and is reverting to its earlier erroneous policy of limiting the number of tests. We do not have the information we need and are not taking the steps we should be taking to stop the spread of the disease."
The official warned that medical teams would be at risk if they were unable to identify COVID-19 cases that arrived in emergency rooms. Other patients who were at greater risk from the virus would so be compromised.
The Health Ministry has failed to conduct the 10,000 tests per day promised by Netanyahu; his assurance that that number would grow to 30,000 tests per day seems unlikely.
On Thursday, 7,294 people were tested, down from 7,833 the day before. No data on the number of tests has been made available since.
According to Israeli media reports, the Health Ministry has moved to block testing technology developed by the Weizmann Institute of Science that would allow tens of thousands of samples to be analyzed per day. According to the reports, requests for an explanation for this have gone unanswered by the ministry.
The Health Ministry criteria for testing has been disregarded by some, including Hadassah Medical Center CEO Prof. Zeev Rotstein who tested his entire staff across both Hadassah campuses twice within five days, detecting 30 carriers of the coronavirus who were then isolated to prevent further spread.
The Health Ministry insists, however, that despite a world-wide shortage of materials, with a spokesman claiming that Israel is "still testing more than many other countries."
He expressed the hope that the shortage of reagent would be resolved by Monday, adding that the ministry was set to finalize a contract with a Chinese company for technology to analyze 30,000 tests a day.
The Gulf of Eilat
The Geophysical Institute of Israel reported the tremblor's epicenter was some 100 km (62 miles) south of the city of Eilat along the Great Rift Valley; 'Storms, coronavirus and now earthquake, what else? The 10 plagues?' says one Eilat resident
A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck the southernmost city of Eilat on Sunday morning, according to The Geophysical Institute of Israel.
The Geophysical Institute said the earthquake’s epicenter was some 100 km (62 miles) south of the city, in the Gulf of Eilat along the Syrian-African rift system, known as the Great Rift Valley.
"Storms, coronavirus and now earthquake, what else? The 10 plagues? God save us,” said Galit Adler Malka, a resident of Eilat, who felt the earthquake.
Zehava Attia, another southernmost city resident, said she had been woken up by the shaking of the bed. "I did not understand what happened but my heart was pounding.”
“I felt the bed shake,” said another resident of Eilat, Roni Moyal. “At first, I hadn't realize what was happening, but by the time I had, I began thinking which lintel in the house is the most durable.”
Israel was last hit by an earthquake on February 6, when 4 magnitude temblors were felt in the northern city of Haifa as well as in Jerusalem.
According to seismic expert Dr. Ron Avni of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, while the recent temblors weren’t strong, it is proof that the Great Rift Valley (the edge of a tectonic plate running parallel to the Jordan River) is active, and a devastating quake could cause a lot damage in Israel in the foreseeable future.
Avni told Ynet last September that Israel experiences a massive quake approximately every 100 years, and the the last major temblor was on July 11, 1927 (a devastating event that caused innumerable damage and killed hundreds across the Jordan Valley), meaning that a major earthquake is expected to rip through the country in the near future.
"A rough estimate is that once every 100 years, devastating quakes occur across the rift," said Avni. "Government puts (the potential death toll) at about 7,000,” he added.
“It depends where and when it happens. If, for example, it happens when most of the population is outside, there will be a rather smaller number of fatalities.”
The Geophysical Institute of Israel reported the tremblor's epicenter was some 100 km (62 miles) south of the city of Eilat along the Great Rift Valley; 'Storms, coronavirus and now earthquake, what else? The 10 plagues?' says one Eilat resident
A 4.3 magnitude earthquake struck the southernmost city of Eilat on Sunday morning, according to The Geophysical Institute of Israel.
The Geophysical Institute said the earthquake’s epicenter was some 100 km (62 miles) south of the city, in the Gulf of Eilat along the Syrian-African rift system, known as the Great Rift Valley.
"Storms, coronavirus and now earthquake, what else? The 10 plagues? God save us,” said Galit Adler Malka, a resident of Eilat, who felt the earthquake.
Zehava Attia, another southernmost city resident, said she had been woken up by the shaking of the bed. "I did not understand what happened but my heart was pounding.”
“I felt the bed shake,” said another resident of Eilat, Roni Moyal. “At first, I hadn't realize what was happening, but by the time I had, I began thinking which lintel in the house is the most durable.”
Israel was last hit by an earthquake on February 6, when 4 magnitude temblors were felt in the northern city of Haifa as well as in Jerusalem.
According to seismic expert Dr. Ron Avni of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, while the recent temblors weren’t strong, it is proof that the Great Rift Valley (the edge of a tectonic plate running parallel to the Jordan River) is active, and a devastating quake could cause a lot damage in Israel in the foreseeable future.
Avni told Ynet last September that Israel experiences a massive quake approximately every 100 years, and the the last major temblor was on July 11, 1927 (a devastating event that caused innumerable damage and killed hundreds across the Jordan Valley), meaning that a major earthquake is expected to rip through the country in the near future.
"A rough estimate is that once every 100 years, devastating quakes occur across the rift," said Avni. "Government puts (the potential death toll) at about 7,000,” he added.
“It depends where and when it happens. If, for example, it happens when most of the population is outside, there will be a rather smaller number of fatalities.”
Asra Media Office has affirmed that the Israeli administration of the Ofer jail transferred the nine prisoners who had been quarantined to the Saharonim Prison in the Negev where African migrants are held.
Asra Media said that the Israeli prison service did not conduct the necessary tests for those quarantined prisoners although they had been in close contact with a fellow prisoner suffering from coronavirus.
The nine prisoners are Rakan al-Ja’bari, Yazan al-Ja’bari, Hazaa al-Ammour, Qusay Daraghmeh, Dyab Barrash, Imad al-Sheikh, Mohamed Melhem, Sameh al-Ammour, and Khalil Dawwas.
All those prisoners had come into contact with Nouruddin Sarsour, who was released recently. Two minors identified as Hasan Hammad and Abdul-Rahman also met with Sarsour a few days ago as they were transported to a court, but Israeli jailers quarantined them later.
Last Wednesday, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs announced that ex-detainee Nouruddin Sarsour tested positive for coronavirus one day after his release from the Ofer jail.
Asra Media said that the Israeli prison service did not conduct the necessary tests for those quarantined prisoners although they had been in close contact with a fellow prisoner suffering from coronavirus.
The nine prisoners are Rakan al-Ja’bari, Yazan al-Ja’bari, Hazaa al-Ammour, Qusay Daraghmeh, Dyab Barrash, Imad al-Sheikh, Mohamed Melhem, Sameh al-Ammour, and Khalil Dawwas.
All those prisoners had come into contact with Nouruddin Sarsour, who was released recently. Two minors identified as Hasan Hammad and Abdul-Rahman also met with Sarsour a few days ago as they were transported to a court, but Israeli jailers quarantined them later.
Last Wednesday, the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs announced that ex-detainee Nouruddin Sarsour tested positive for coronavirus one day after his release from the Ofer jail.
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National coronavirus death toll up to 49; 139 patients still in serious condition; health official says lab equipment will receive required adjustments to suit newly developed replacement to key reagents for coronavirus
Health Ministry confirmed Sunday that the total number of COVID-19 cases in Israel currently stands at 8,430. A 98-year-old woman, with multiple complex background ailments, passed away on Sunday at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem from coronavirus related complications, raising the national death toll from COVID-19 to 49. |
Israel's coronavirus death toll up to 47, with 8,018 confirmed cases
The Health Ministry confirms one of the people to have died from COVID-19 is an 84-year-old woman who contracted the virus at the same 'Mishan' assisted living facility in Be'er Sheva as five other virus victims; 127 patients still in serious condition
Israel's coronavirus death toll up to 46, with 8,018 confirmed cases
Another two people have died from complications related to coronavirus, bringing Israel's total to 46, health officials said on Sunday morning. The Health Ministry added the total number of COVID-19 cases in Israel currently stands at 8,018.
The latest victims are a 63-year-old man who was hospitalized at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem and an 84-year-old woman who was treated at Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, having contracted the virus at Mishan nursing home in the southern city where five other COVID-19 victims lived.
The Health Ministry confirms one of the people to have died from COVID-19 is an 84-year-old woman who contracted the virus at the same 'Mishan' assisted living facility in Be'er Sheva as five other virus victims; 127 patients still in serious condition
Israel's coronavirus death toll up to 46, with 8,018 confirmed cases
Another two people have died from complications related to coronavirus, bringing Israel's total to 46, health officials said on Sunday morning. The Health Ministry added the total number of COVID-19 cases in Israel currently stands at 8,018.
The latest victims are a 63-year-old man who was hospitalized at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem and an 84-year-old woman who was treated at Soroka Medical Center in Be'er Sheva, having contracted the virus at Mishan nursing home in the southern city where five other COVID-19 victims lived.
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