The Defense Ministry, in coordination with the Finance Ministry, decided on an agreement to implement the “Personnel Program” in all red and orange cities in coming weeks to help reduce coronavirus morbidity rates.
According to a review presented by Defense Minister Benny Gantz, the coronavirus morbidity rate has decreased significantly in areas in which the program has already been running.
“We must give local authorities the tools to work,” said Gantz in a statement. “In every locality that we ran this program, we saw results. The importance of the program, which enables accompaniment of isolated patients, the provision of food, information dispersed to the public adapted to the nature of the area, will become more valid upon the opening of the closure,” Gantz said.
On Thursday, the IDF and Home Front Command ran the program in 150 cities throughout the country, together with local authorities, marking an increase of 11 cities.
Meanwhile, efforts have been stepped up in a number of cities, including Bnei Brak, in which NIS 1 million is set to be invested in dispersing information and proactive activities to protect adults, individuals and families of patients in isolation.
The Health Ministry announced on Friday that a total of 3,693 new coronavirus cases had been diagnosed in the last day, out of 48,806 tests that were conducted, marking the lowest rate of infection documented since September – a positive return of 8% of tests.
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The death toll stands at 1,879. In addition, there are 59,578 coronavirus patients in Israel, of those 850 are in critical condition, and 233 are intubated. There have been 286,646 patients in total diagnosed in Israel, with 225,189 having recovered.Later on Friday, Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy gave an interview on channel 13 and said that preschoolers might be able to go back to school in two more weeks.
Coronavirus commissioner Prof. Ronni Gamzu told N12 on Friday evening that the lockdown restrictions could start easing up as soon as next week.
“I’m in favor of easing up the restrictions,” Gamzu said. “It will probably happen at the end of next week or the beginning of the following week.”
Tobias Siegal contributed to this report.
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