Bennett to quarantine after being near journalist who contracted COVID-19

Yamina party leader MK Naftali Bennett says he has entered quarantined until the coming Sunday after being in contact with a coronavirus carrier.

Defense Minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement to the media in Ariel, in the West Bank, January 26, 2020. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)

The former defense minister says he was near the patient only for a few minutes and he hasn’t had symptoms.

Reports say the carrier is a prominent journalist.

The development comes as an unnamed employee at Channel 13 news is said to have caught the disease, which prompted the network’s two most senior anchors and military analyst to isolate themselves.

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