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Thursday, March 5, 2020
17th Israeli diagnosed with coronavirus
A man from central Israel who recently returned from Italy has become the seventeenth person to be diagnosed with COVID-19, according to the Health Ministry.
He returned to Israel from Venice on February 29, on Easyjet flight EJ3342.
All passengers on board that flight must enter a 14-day home quarantine, the ministry says.
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