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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, July 20, 2021

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SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19, isolated from a patient in the U.S., emerging from the surface of cells cultured in a lab. (NIAID-RML via AP)

3 existing drugs fight coronavirus with ‘almost 100%’ success in Jerusalem lab

By Nathan Jeffay

If medicines pass clinical test for COVID, they’re also likely to prove effective for new variants, scientists say, as they target proteins that barely change between mutations

People are seen wearing face masks in Jerusalem, July 19, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Daily virus cases top 1,300 in 4-month high, as Israel set for new restrictions

Active COVID-19 infections surge to nearly 8,000, but serious cases remain at around 60; health minister says ‘Green Pass’ and quarantine for all returnees being discussed

An Israeli girl receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, on July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Just one serious COVID patient in Israel is both vaccinated and under 60 — TV

Travelers seen in the departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Israel expected to require all travelers entering the country to self-isolate

Ministers likely to okay move Tuesday; Health Ministry warns against travel abroad — but says no plans to shutter airport — as 37,000 pass through Ben Gurion on Monday

Travellers seen in the departure hall at the Ben Gurion International Airport, on July 19, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Health officials put brakes on talk of shutting airport to stem infections

By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff

Travelers arriving at the Ben Gurion International Airport, stand in line to get a COVID-19 check upon arrival. July 1, 2021. (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)

Report claims airport virus testing firm not properly handling samples

Family members wearing safety gear visit a family member at the coronavirus ward of Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on February 3, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Interview

Top immunologist: Douse Israel’s Delta ‘fire’ before it needs lake-full of water

By Nathan Jeffay

Cyrille Cohen talks Delta dynamics and booster shots, raises concerns and sounds warning alarm while also suggesting variant may further immunize some people for uncertain future

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett seen during a cabinet meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on July 19, 2021. (Marc Israel Sellem/POOL)

Bennett warns public to take virus rules seriously, or prepare to pay up

PM declares that government decisions are not mere advice, says authorities formulating plan for smooth opening of school year

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett chairs the weekly cabinet meeting, in Jerusalem, July 11, 2021. (Ronen Zvulun/Pool via AP)

Bennett: ‘Vaccines on their own won’t solve the problem’

Border Police officers give a face mask to a man on Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on October 7, 2020, during the nationwide coronavirus lockdown. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

PM: Police to track quarantined Israelis, with criminal charges for violators

A health worker prepares a vaccination against COVID-19 at a vaccination center of the Tel Aviv municipality and Magen David Adom, in Tel Aviv, July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

Israeli study claims vaccines cut infection risk even in COVID-afflicted homes

By Nathan Jeffay

Research was conducted before Delta variant, but deputy head of Sheba Medical Center, which took part in effort, calls findings ‘convincing illustration of vaccine effectiveness’

An antigen speed test is pictured in a nursing home in Ammerschwihr, eastern France, on November 9, 2020. (AP Photo/Jean-Francois Badias)

Israel rolls out pilot for pharmacies to sell rapid home virus tests

Israelis wait to recieve a COVID-19 vaccine, at a vaccination center operated by the Tel Aviv Municipality with Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center (Ichilov), at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv, December 31, 2020. (Miriam ALster/Flash90)

Israeli research finds COVID-19 antibody levels differ between men and women

By Stuart Winer

This combination of file photos shows actor-comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (left) at a screening of the Oscars on April 26, 2021 in Sydney, Australia, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg (right) in New York, on October 25, 2019. (AP/Rick Rycroft, Pool, Mark Lennihan)

Sacha Baron Cohen suggests jailing Zuckerberg over COVID misinformation

Comedian known for rallying against social media platforms says President Biden is correct in accusing Facebook of ‘killing people’

Demonstrators participate in a vehicle caravan with a sign reading 'Trust in God not vaccines' outside City Hall, on April 22, 2020, in Los Angeles, California. (Mario Tama/Getty Images/AFP)

12 accounts behind most online vaccine misinformation, COVID conspiracy theories

By ToI Staff and AP

US President Joe Biden speaks about the economy and his infrastructure agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House, in Washington, July 19, 2021. (AP/Andrew Harnik)

Biden says remark that Facebook ‘killing people’ was a call for big tech to act

By Zeke Miller and Barbara Ortutay

England parties to celebrate ‘Freedom Day’ as COVID curbs lift despite fears

By SYLVIA HUI and UROOBA JAMAL

Clubs reopen after midnight with countdowns and sparkling wine; experts warn young clubbers are ‘perfect mixing vessel for virus to spread and to even generate new variants’

People drink on the dance floor shortly after the reopening, at The Piano Works in Farringdon, in London, Monday, July 19, 2021. Thousands of young people plan to dance the night away at 'Freedom Day' parties after midnight Sunday, when almost all coronavirus restrictions in England are to be scrapped. Nightclubs, which have been shuttered since March 2020, can finally reopen. (AP Photo/Alberto Pezzali)

England lifts COVID curbs as experts warn of danger in surging virus cases

By Jitendra Joshi

Britain's Health Secretary Sajid Javid updates MPs on the governments coronavirus plans, in the House of Commons, London, Monday, July 5, 2021 (Jessica Taylor/UK Parliament via AP)

Vaccinated UK health minister tests positive for COVID-19, has mild symptoms

By AP

Vardit Ravitsky in Ottawa, 2014. (Courtesy)

Interview'It was too easy to ignore these issues before COVID'

Israeli-Canadian bioethicist: Return to pre-COVID normal would be wasted chance

By Robert Sarner

With myriad ethical issues prompted by the pandemic, Vardit Ravitsky has emerged as a prominent voice of morality and change in Canada’s public health debate

A man receives a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at the outpatient clinics of the Cardiovascular Centre at Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv, Israel, on July 12, 2021. (Jack Guez/AFP)

Health Ministry: Most cancer patients should not get third COVID booster shot

New guidelines recommend that patients with solid tumors not receive a third dose, while those with blood cancers and disorders should do so

Israeli youth receive COVID-19 vaccine injections at a vaccination center in Jerusalem, July 8, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

If Israel offers 3rd vaccine shot, Pfizer to immediately provide supply — TV

More Headlines

People walk around in a commercial district in downtown Tehran, Iran, July, 17, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Iran imposes week-long lockdown on Tehran as coronavirus surges

By AP

US First Lady Jill Biden encourages recently vaccinated patients to get unvaccinated friends and family to receive their COVID-19 vaccinations during a visit to a popup clinic site at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss. on June 22, 2021. (AP/Rogelio V. Solis)

US warns COVID ‘becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated’ as case spike continues

By AFP

People register to get vaccinated at a mobile pop-up vaccination station at Hermannplatz square in Berlin's Neukoelln district on July 16, 2021, amid the coronavirus pandemic. (STEFANIE LOOS / AFP)

EU disease agency anticipates Delta variant surge in coming weeks

By AFP

At a Bob Dylan performance in Los Angeles, January 12, 2012 -- the singer is the subject of a book about his spiritual wisdom, 'About Man & God & Law' by Stephen Daniel Arnoff (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, File)

Not dark yetEnding 18-month hiatus, Bob Dylan returns to the (online) stage

By David Bauder

An Israeli girl receives a COVID-19 vaccine at a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, on July 4, 2021. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)

COVID vaccine for kids under 12 expected in winter, FDA official reportedly says

Defense Minister Benny Gantz visits a laboratory in the Israel Institute for Biological Research on October 25, 2020. (Defense Ministry)

Israel’s own COVID-19 vaccine to be tested in Georgia, Ukraine and at home

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