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Battling COVID: Weekly Update

Tuesday, April 13, 2021

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Fifth grade students at the Alumot Elementary School in Efrat, on February 21, 2021 (Gershon Elinson/Flash90)

Ministers vote to fully reopen schools, scrapping pods, starting Sunday

Health Ministry plan will end distance learning for 5-9 graders, introduce an ‘expansive testing and monitoring system’ at educational institutions

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

Israel will fully reopen in a month if no new rise in contagion, virus czar says

Some Israelis wear protective face masks, in Tel Aviv, on April 07, 2021. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

Israel may have reached a ‘sort of herd immunity’ from COVID, expert says

Eran Segal says virus cases down 97% since January as result of successful vaccination drive, additional restrictions can safely be lifted

Ilustrative: Hadassah Ein Kerem staff members work in the hospital's coronavirus ward, in Jerusalem on February 1, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Serious COVID cases in Israel fall below 300 for first time since early December

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, December 20, 2020. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israeli pediatricians plan to issue call for parents to vaccinate under-16s

By ToI Staff and AFP

A doctor holding syringe for vaccination against COVID-19, in front of a South African flag. (Igor Vershinsky via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli data shows South African variant able to ‘break through’ Pfizer vaccine

By Nathan Jeffay

Strain is more effective than original COVID and the British variant at bypassing the shot, Israeli scientists find, in first-of-its-kind, real-world study

A Boston Red Sox staff member disinfects the railing in front of the visitor's dugout before a spring training baseball game between the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox, March 10, 2021, in Fort Myers, Florida. (AP/John Bazemore)

New CDC guidelines suggest virus transmission through surfaces negligible

Demonstrators gathered in the Rose Garden across from the Knesset to protest the government’s lack of policy regarding entry permits for family members to enter Israel, March 6, 2021. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)

Vaccinated or recovered foreigners permitted to enter Israel to visit relatives

By ToI Staff and Jessica Steinberg

Noncitizens must show documentation of inoculation or COVID recovery and proof of relation to those they are coming to see; protesting immigrants say new rules too little too late

Passengers seen at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv on March 8, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel’s Health Ministry: US, France pose ‘very high’ risk for virus mutations

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

Health Ministry weighing permits to allow tourist groups back into Israel

Illustrative: Israeli tourists at Ras Sheitan in the Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, on April 5, 2021. (Jacob Magid/Times of Israel)

Reporter's notebook

Parting the red tape, Israeli tourists wander back into the Sinai

For those willing to put up with the tests, permits and other hassles required to cross the reopened border, an abundance of Egyptian resorts hungry for business await

Illustrative: Kefir grains, used to make the yoghurt drink kefir, above a glass of the drink (ThitareeSarmkasat via iStock by Getty Images)

Israeli lab ‘cures’ mice of COVID-style inflammation using yogurt molecules

By Nathan Jeffay

Researchers say probiotics have antibacterial properties, as well as preventing inflammation, could be used as basis for drugs of the future

Analysis

Molly Bernstein

Vaccines won’t be enough

In every community I visit with IsraAID, from Africa to Puerto Rico, I see the networks that bring people together. We need them for our global vaccination efforts to succeed

American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten speaks about education, January 9, 2017, at the National Press Club in Washington. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Interview

US teachers union head Randi Weingarten has a vision to get kids back to school

By Laura Adkins

A woman gets an AstraZeneca vaccine at a vaccination center in Bucharest, Romania, Wednesday, April 7, 2021. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

EU says AstraZeneca clot risk ‘very rare’ but more nations suspend use for young

UK, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain and the Netherlands among countries not recommending shot for younger people; officials insist benefits outweigh risks

Medical staff prepare an AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine during preparations at the vaccine center in Ebersberg near Munich, Germany, March 22, 2021. (Matthias Schrader/AP)

EU: Possible AstraZeneca link to rare blood clots; UK: Offer under 30s a choice

Healthcare workers take on a stretcher a patient suspected of having COVID-19 from an ambulance, at the HRAN public hospital in Brasilia, Brazil, March 23, 2021 (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

1 in 3 of COVID survivors suffer long-term mental, neurological problems – study

By Patrick Galey

Largest study so far on long COVID’s toll shows higher incidence of anxiety, hemorrhages and strokes within 6 months of recovery

Illustrative: Palestinians from Gaza's health ministry unload boxes of Russian Sputnik V vaccine doses sent by the United Arab Emirates, at the Rafah crossing in the southern Gaza Strip, on March 11, 2021. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)

Gaza’s second wave: 35% of coronavirus tests positive, mass vaccination far off

By Aaron Boxerman

Enclave currently has 15,475 active cases, but with poor testing Hamas health officials estimate that the true number of sick could be more than five times as high

Palestinian medical workers receive a vaccine against the coronavirus at a medical center in the West Bank city of Dura on March 21, 2021. (Wisam Hashlamoun/FLASH90)

Amnesty pans Israeli ‘discrimination’ in not vaccinating Palestinians

By Stuart Winer

David Teyf, CEO and executive chef of Madison and Park, delivers meals to homebound Holocaust survivors who are residents of a MetCouncil building on the Lower East Side in New York City on August 21, 2020. (Benjamin Kanter/JTA)

NY chef delivers heimish food to ensure no Holocaust survivor goes hungry again

A municipal worker cleans swastikas spray painted on columns of the Rivoli Street in central Paris, on October 11, 2020. (Stephane De Sakutin/AFP)

Pandemic fueled anti-Semitism, with vaccine firm heads likened to Nazis – study

By Agencies and ToI Staff

On Holocaust Remembrance Day eve, TAU researchers say that while lockdowns led to drop in physical attacks, conspiracies flourished online about outbreak being Israeli, Jewish plot

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu touches the first batch of Pfizer vaccines to arrive in Israel at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, December 9, 2020. (Marc Israel Sellem/Pool)

Pfizer said to warn Israel: Pay up or go to the back of vaccine line

Dispute between Netanyahu and Gantz delays cabinet authorization of budget to buy additional vaccines; angry company officials reportedly tell Israel, ‘We’re not philanthropists’

Illustrative image: A staff member at a Meuhedet COVID-19 vaccination center in Kfar Habad, central Israel, on February 16, 2021. (Flash90)

Israel’s secrecy on vaccines is causing supply uncertainty, says state adviser

By Nathan Jeffay

More Headlines

A man walks through Tehran's closed Grand Bazaar, in Tehran, Iran, April 10, 2021. (AP /Vahid Salemi)

With slow vaccine rollout and surging cases, Iran enters a 10-day virus lockdown

A worker opens a package of coronavirus vaccine made by a Sinopharm subsidiary during a COVID-19 vaccination session for resident foreign journalists at a vaccination center in Beijing, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

Beijing admits Chinese vaccines ‘don’t have very high protection rates’

By Joe McDonald and HUIZHONG WU

People paint red hearts marking the completion of the approximately 150,000 hearts being painted onto the National Covid Memorial Wall to commemorate all those who have died of coronavirus, on the Thames Embankment opposite the Houses of Parliament in London, April 8, 2021. (Frank Augstein/AP)

Official figures show more than 1 million coronavirus deaths in Europe

By AFP

US President Joe Biden visits a vaccination site at Virginia Theological Seminary, April 6, 2021, in Alexandria, Virginia (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden says all adult Americans to be eligible for vaccine by April 19

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE and Alexandra Jaffe

Culture Minister Chili Tropper (2rd R, front) and Miri Regev (3rd R, front), pose for a photo with the torch lighters of the Israeli 73th Independence Day Ceremony at Mount Herzl in Jerusalem, on April 12, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)

Light yearsIndependence Day torch lighters span in age from 18 to 102

President Reuven Rivlin (center) and others take part in the virtual March of the Living ceremony, April 8, 2021. (Screen capture: YouTube)

March of the Living honors medical workers leading COVID fight

By AP and ToI Staff

Antony Fauci poses with an award from the March of the Living in a broadcast posted by the Holocaust remembrance group on April 7, 2021. (YouTube)

March of the Living gives Fauci award for moral courage in his COVID work

Governor of the Bank of Israel Amir Yaron, left, presents the central bank's annual report to President Reuven Rivlin, April 6, 2021 (Mark Neyman, GPO)

Stable government, budget needed for Israel to exit crisis – central bank chief

By Shoshanna Solomon

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