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Coronavirus cabinet opens with call to shut malls — reports
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleA meeting of the coronavirus cabinet has begun, several Hebrew-language outlets report.
According to Channel 12 news and Kan, the Health Ministry will recommend that Israel shut down all nonessential stores.
“There’s a rise in infection, we need to push off mall openings,” national security adviser Meir Ben Shabbat is quoted by Kan saying at the start of the closed-door meeting. No source is given.
Channel 12 reports that the ministry will also attempt to reimpose quarantine restrictions for arrivals from all countries, including those deemed low infection areas. Arrivals from Turkey and Serbia will be asked to isolate part of the time in hotels.
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