Israel is set to enter a new lockdown phase on Friday morning after ministers agreed to implement fresh restrictions following an escalation in COVID cases. The lockdown is likely to only apply to the weekends initially. 

The Health Ministry announced 1,898 new confirmed infections in the past 24 hours, an infection rate of seven percent. The number of Israelis sick with the virus passed 24,000. The number of serious cases is also rising and hospital wards are filling up.

Netanyahu on Wednesday said at a televised press conference that the government will do all it can to avoid the type of  longer-term lockdowns that took place during the first wave.

“I have been holding urgent discussions since this morning following the jump in Israel in the second wave of corona: About 1,800 patients and an increase in the doubling of the critically ill,” Netanyahu tweeted.

“This is basically the goal of this debate, to take intermediate steps to prevent a general closure in light of the huge jump in morbidity… and the doubling of critically ill patients every seven days,” he said int he tweet.

In order to get the daily infections down to below 400 by the end of August, the country will go into lockdown mode each weekend with beaches and malls closed, Channel 12 news reported.

Gatherings all week will be restricted to 20 people outdoors and only 10 people indoors, including houses of worship.

Dining at restaurants will be prohibited and eateries will only be allowed to operate for deliveries only.

Read more at World Israel News

Related Articles:

How the Oscars got hijacked by Israel hate

Every year when the Oscars comes around, we prepare ourselves for headlines about who won big on the night, the fashion on display on the red carpet, and indeed talk of the...

“The numbers are not real” – new analysis blasts Hamas figures as FAKE

Graph with Hamas daily figures shows impossible straight line.There is lack of correlation between women and children casualties.Hamas's own figures show Israel is killing hardly any...

‘You should be ashamed of yourself for using Auschwitz to criticise Israel’

This year's Oscars was surrounded by controversy due to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. One of the winners on the night was The Zone of Interest, a film about the Holocaust...

Israel is at war with Hamas, not the Palestinian people

Israel has long sought peace with her neighbours. Unfortunately, you cannot make peace with a neighbour that wants to wipe you off the face of the earth. Hamas is one such neighbour, and as...

For Hamas, No Lives Matter

For years, anyone with a modicum of interest in understanding the Israel-Palestinian conflict recognized that Hamas had no care for the lives of innocent people on both sides of the...

Become a member of CUFI and receive these mini-books and exclusive lapel-pin