Jerusalemites to be confined to one of 7 municipal regions during lockdown

7 April 2020, 2:50 pm

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According to new regulations approved by the cabinet, Jerusalem residents will be confined throughout the lockdown within their respective regions sketched out by government officials, dividing the city — which has the largest number of virus cases in the country — into seven portions.

A map provided by the Health Ministry divides Jerusalem into seven regions. Residents are not permitted to leave their region from Tuesday evening until Friday morning (Health Ministry)

Following a several-hour meeting, ministers green-lighted emergency regulations that will ban all inter-city traffic beginning at 7 p.m. tonight and expiring Friday at 6 a.m.

Supermarkets, food deliveries and other essential services will, however, continue to operate until Wednesday afternoon at 3 p.m., and then reopen Thursday morning.