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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, April 27, 2021

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An Israeli man cuts through a huge face mask as Israelis celebrate the end of the outdoor mask mandate, in Jerusalem, April 18, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

50% vaccination for over 60s means hospitals not overwhelmed

Scientists: Israel proves every developed country can subdue COVID with vaccines

By Nathan Jeffay

Prof. Dan Yamin says hospitals became safe from meltdown once 50% of over-60s were vaccinated, even with highly infectious variants

Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward in Jerusalem on January 19, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel records no new daily COVID deaths for first time in 10 months

Israelis in Tel Aviv, April 22, 2021 (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel sees just 38 new COVID cases, the lowest daily tally in a year

Shayna Smilovitz, baby Roni and her parents upon meeting their granddaughter for the first time in April 2021, after grappling with Israel's complicated entry rules during the coronavirus pandemic (Courtesy Shayna Smilovitz)

Want to visit your Israeli grandchildren after a year of separation? Get in line

By Jessica Steinberg

First-degree family members, new grandparents and Israeli residents with visas try to navigate the labyrinthine regulations of entering Israel during the pandemic

Israelis sit a cafe in Jerusalem's city center on April 21, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Despite COVID’s ebb, Israel among 116 countries added to US ‘Do Not Travel’ list

Inclusion on State Department’s Level Four advisory, indicating ‘unprecedented’ risk, appears to be due to health officials’ decision to lump Israel with West Bank and Gaza

Travelers at the departures hall in Ben Gurion Airport on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel issues travel warning for 7 high-infection countries amid variant fears

Travellers at Ben Gurion International Airport on April 18, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)

Israel, Bahrain ink ‘unprecedented’ travel corridor deal for the vaccinated

People sit outside at a cafe in the town of Pardes Hanna, April 27, 2020 (Screen grab/Walla)

COVID-19 outbreak in Pardes Hanna, where many still refusing to vaccinate

With only 58% of residents receiving 1st shot, town known for alternative lifestyles sees 13 classes and 3 kindergartens quarantined

Illustrative: An Israeli student receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection at a Leumit vaccination center in Tel Aviv, on January 23, 2021, just after the country rolled out inoculation to everyone aged 16-plus. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel risks losing teenagers to anti-vaxxer influence, warns top doctor

By Nathan Jeffay

A health worker prepares a COVID-19 vaccine shot at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Israel crosses milestone of 5 million fully vaccinated against COVID-19

A father, wearing a face mask to protect against the spread of coronavirus, brings his newborn daughter her mother for breastfeeding in Liege, Belgium, June 26, 2020. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco)

Israeli study boosts belief vaccinated mothers protect babies through their milk

By Nathan Jeffay

For at least 6 weeks after first COVID shot kicks in, nursing moms produce antibody-packed milk, suggesting they are safe from virus while nursed; no adverse events recorded

Coronavirus czar Nachman Ash during a visit to the Jerusalem Municipality on November 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Virus czar rejects Netanyahu’s prediction of another vaccine round in 6 months

By Stuart Winer

An Israeli receives the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel said probing link between Pfizer shot and heart problem in men under 30

Illustrative image: a Haredi man receives a coronavirus vaccine in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

‘I’m young, I don’t need it’: Ultra-Orthodox non-vaxxers dig in their heels

By Nathan Jeffay

Amid Israel’s vaccination success, there are still some 800,000 adults refusing to get shots, many of them Haredi, and they seem motivated by fear, not religious rulings

A healthcare worker prepares the material to test a child for COVID-19, on the outskirts of Montevideo, Uruguay, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Matilde Campodonico)

Israeli aid team heads to Uruguay, where COVID dream has turned to nightmare

By Nathan Jeffay

The South American country hardly felt the virus last year, but now has the world’s second-highest infection rate and hospitals are under pressure

Relatives mourn near a coffin containing the body of a person who died of COVID-19, in Srinagar, Indian controlled Kashmir, April 25, 2021. (Mukhtar Khan/ AP)

Israel considers sending aid to virus-ravaged India

By TOI staff and Agencies

Indian women stand in a queue to cast votes during a legislative assembly election at Chopra, in Dinajpur district on April 22, 2021. (Diptendu DUTTA / AFP)

Indian virus surge pushes world to record COVID highs

By AFP and TOI staff

from the blogs

Spring always comes

Taking a walk in New York City, after hibernating during this endless COVID winter, reminds me that I am vulnerable in the new season – and also filled with hope

Only a faithful few make it as Djerba pilgrimage resumes after COVID break

By AFP

‘This year, we pray for the whole world,’ says one participant, as virus restrictions keep away thousands who normally flock to Tunisia’s Ghriba synagogue to mark Lag B’Omer

Illustrative: In this October 4, 2020, photo, two women walk with children during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot in the Borough Park neighborhood of the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP/Kathy Willens)

Childhood illness RSV surges in Orthodox Brooklyn, after receding during COVID

Some doctors speculate that as cases of respiratory syncytial virus dropped off during lockdown, children did not develop normal immunity, leading to fresh flair up of disease

Israelis at a cafe in Tel Aviv, on April 07, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Enjoying unemployment benefits, young Israelis choose not to go back to work

By Shoshanna Solomon

Even as the economy almost fully reopens with the virus waning, low-paid workers are opting to stay home; demand for restaurant staff surges, Employment Service says

People eat at a restaurant in Jerusalem's main market after authorities reopened restaurants, bars and cafes to 'green pass' holders on March 11, 2021. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Amid COVID, Israel enters top 20 club of nations with highest GDP per capita

By Shoshanna Solomon

A high-tech company which employs ultra-Orthodox women in Modiin Illit. August 17, 2009. (Abir Sultan/Flash 90/File)

Tech jobs dip but still in demand amid COVID-19 economic downturn

By Shoshanna Solomon

from the blogs

Why don’t we talk to the teachers?

The pandemic offers a chance for much-needed educational reform, but the way schools have rushed back to the old normal suggests that nothing that needs to change will change

from the blogs

This year, they will know more

When you’re a teacher who knows your students can achieve so much more than they’ve been offered, sometimes all you can do is step up and create the opportunity for them yourself

Camp Modin in Maine was one of the few Jewish camps to open last year. It plans to follow the same playbook this year. (Courtesy of Howard Salzberg/ via JTA)

Needed now more than ever, what US Jewish summer camp will look like this year

First responders work the scene of a fire at a hospital in Baghdad on April 24, 2021. (AP Photo)

Fury in Iraq as fire at Baghdad COVID hospital kills at least 82, wounds 110

By Ammar Karim and Salam Faraj

Medical sources say blaze that ripped through Ibn al-Khatib medical center started with explosion caused by ‘a fault in the storage of oxygen cylinders’

Mourners take the body of Khudair Ali, a coronavirus patient who died in a hospital fire, during his funeral in Baghdad, Iraq on April 25, 2021. (AP/Khalid Mohammed)

Iraqis blame hospital fire on mismanagement as health minister suspended

By Sarah Benhaida and Ammar Karim

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Tal Zaks (C), Moderna's chief medical officer, receives an honorary doctorate during a ceremony at Bar-Ilan University on April 26, 2021. (Courtesy)

Moderna’s top medical officer awarded honorary doctorate by Bar-Ilan University

Soccer fans at a game between Beitar Jerusalem F.C. and Ashdod F.C., at Teddy Stadium, Jerusalem, on March 17, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel poised to lift limits on attendance for vaccinated at events

Frustrated by delays, EU launches legal action against vaccine-maker AstraZeneca

An AstraZeneca vaccination kit is placed on a table at a vaccination center in Bucharest, Romania, April 7, 2021.(AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

Israel reportedly seeking to cancel deal for AstraZeneca vaccines

By TOI staff and Agencies

This picture taken on April 22, 2021 shows a general view of nurses and patients at the COVID-19 coronavirus intensive care unit at the Turkish-Palestinian Friendship Hospital in Gaza City. (Emmanuel DUNAND / AFP)

Gaza hospitals buckle under strain of COVID surge in crowded enclave

By Agencies and TOI staff

Illustrative: Taglit Birthright participants visit at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem on August 18, 2014 (Flash90)

Birthright resuming trips to Israel for vaccinated or recovered US Jews from May

Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson visits a farm as he campaigns on behalf of the Conservative Party for local elections, at Moreton farm near Wrexham, north Wales, Monday, April 26, 2021. (Paul Ellis/Pool Photo via AP)

UK’s Johnson denies saying thousands of ‘bodies piled high’ better than lockdown

By Jill Lawless

Pfizer headquarters in New York City, on November 9, 2020. (David Dee Delgado/Getty Images/AFP)

Pfizer holds human trials for pill to cure COVID, hopes it’ll be ready this year

A Boeing 787 flight number AI139 of Indian national carrier Air India, from New Delhi, performs maneuvers on the tarmac at Ben Gurion International Airport on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, on March 22, 2018 after using Saudi airspace for the first time. (AFP PHOTO/JACK GUEZ)

Health Ministry officials call to halt flights from India for several weeks

Naomi Wolf appears on Fox News, April 19, 2021. (Screenshot)

Conspiracy theorist Naomi Wolf: Fauci ‘doesn’t work for us,’ got $1m from Israel

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