Israel will impose a third national lockdown to fight surging COVID-19 infections, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday, as the country pursues a vaccination campaign.
In Israel, they have experienced so far a less than 1% mortality rate from COVID-19 infections, and they have distributed more Pfizer BioNTech COVID vaccinations than any other country. Yet, they are right now in the midst of a third national COVID lockdown, one that has Israeli small businesses wondering if they will ever reopen. I guess masks, social distancing, and vaccines really don't work after all, do they?
I keep waiting for people in America, or in any other nation around the world, to rise up and reject this COVID theater being played out for us in real time, and demand their freedoms be restored. But you know as well as I do, COVID is never going to go away, and neither will the restrictions. When all is said and done, the world will be a very different place, digital biometric identification will have been installed, and your DNA having been altered by the mRNA vaccines will never be the same. This has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with prophecy.
In other news, Israel is currently threatening war with Iran, dealing with terror attacks in Jerusalem, and the Knesset government is dissolving which will bring about a record fourth election. Never a dull moment when you're in the end times, stay tuned!
Israel imposing third national COVID-19 lockdown
FROM REUTERS: The restrictions will come into effect on Sunday evening and last for 14 days, pending final cabinet approval, a statement from Netanyahu's office said. They include the closure of shops, limited public transport, a partial shutdown of schools and a one-kilometre (two-thirds of a mile) restriction on travel from home, except for commuting to workplaces that remain open, and to purchase essential goods.
Such measures will cost Israel's economy about three billion shekels ($932.6 million) a week, the Finance Ministry said.
"This closure will erase us. We passed two, now the third will kill us. To hell with it," said Ovadia, a fruit stand vendor in a Tel Aviv market. He declined to give his full name.
The economy is expected to shrink 4.5% in 2020, though the Bank of Israel has said the contraction could reach 5% should the COVID-19 crisis prompt more curbs. In November, the jobless rate stood at 12%. The economy is projected to grow as much as 6.5% in 2021 and possibly faster - if the pandemic is contained.
With a population of nine million, Israel has so far reported more than 385,000 cases of COVID-19 and 3,150 deaths. The number of daily infections approached 4,000 on Wednesday, rising from around 1,000 at the end of a month-long lockdown imposed in September that followed one that ran from late March to early May.
On Wednesday, the Health Ministry said it had found four people infected with the new variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain.
With regard to Israel's Christian minority, the Health Ministry said that during Christmas, prayers at houses of worship would be limited to gatherings of 10 people in closed spaces and 100 people in open areas.
The new lockdown comes with Israel's vaccination drive already underway. Health workers and people over the age of 60 are the first groups to be inoculated in a campaign which the health minister said he expected to be completed within months.
But public anger has risen over the government's perceived inconsistent handling of the crisis, and Israel will hold an election on March 23, its fourth in two years, after constant infighting in Netanyahu's coalition. READ MORE
No comments:
Post a Comment