According to a report on News 12, the Israeli health ministry will ask the prime minister to ban gatherings and events of more than 2,500 people. This may be the result of a health ministry discovery on Wednesday that the teenager—who contracted the coronavirus from an employee of the Red Pirate Purim store in Givat Brenner who had returned from Italy—attended the Tel Aviv soccer derby match a week ago at Bloomfield Stadium.
The health ministry called on anyone who attended the same Monday, February 24, game in the Gate 8 seats, to enter home quarantine immediately.
Maccabi Tel Aviv, which leads Israel’s premier league with zero losses and 19 wins, defeated Hapoel Tel Aviv 3-0. Hapoel Tel Aviv is in fifth place, with 10 losses and 11 wins.
Go Maccabi.
The boy, who is coronavirus patient 13, has been in quarantine starting last Saturday, which means he had ample time to infect his environment.
These are the public places he visited, and the people who were nearby on the dates below must also enter a home quarantine:
1. The Red Pirate Store, February 23-26, from 4:30 to 9:00 PM
2. Brenner Regional School, February 24-26
3. Bloomfield Stadium, Gate 8, on Monday, February 24, from 8 to 10 PM
All Brenner Regional School students, including teachers, management staff and transportation staff who were in contact with the boy are asked to enter a home quarantine, and consult the health ministry’s hotline: *5400.
In addition, anyone who was at Bloomfield Stadium during the soccer game and sat at gate 8 is asked to go into quarantine and report to the health ministry website.
Health Ministry Deputy Director General, Professor Itamar Grotto posted on his Facebook page on Wednesday that he believes the spread of the Corona virus in Israel is inevitable. However, Professor Grotto noted that in Israel there are no reports yet of patients who were infected by people who had not been abroad, or from known virus patients, so it can be said that the situation is under control.
Professor Grotto added that by the time there the virus becomes widespread in Israel, most of those who will be infected will receive community care, or won’t need treatment at all and merely be asked to stay at home until the illness passes.
God willing.
However, there will be cases that will require hospitalization and sometimes even intensive care, Professor Grotto conceded. He also stressed that anyone traveling abroad now should take into consideration that they may need to remain in isolation upon their return, even if he flies to a country that is currently not considered risky in terms of the spreading virus. Professor Grotto himself is confined to his home at the moment, having returned from Japan where he helped bring home the Israelis who stayed on the “corona ship.”