Around 75% of the 1,800-plus confirmed coronavirus cases in Jerusalem are in ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, Channel 12 reports, amid government plans to divide the capital into high-risk and low-risk neighborhoods.
According to the report the heaviest rate of infection is in Har Nof, where 8 out of every 1,000 people are infected. In northern Jerusalem Haredi neighborhoods such as Sanhedria, Ramat Eshkol and Ma’alot Dafna, and in Ramat Shlomo, 5 out of every 1,000 people are infected.
In nearby Ramot, home to 60,000 people, two quarters of the neighborhood with majority ultra-Orthodox populations also have high infection rates.
Channel 12 also says that there are some 4,000 people infected with the virus in Jerusalem and Bnei Brak who have not yet been evacuated to quarantine hotels. It warns that closing down those areas without evacuating the carriers risks turning them into incubation centers.
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