Likud Minister Elkin to enter quarantine after aid infected with COVID-19

Likud Minister Ze’ev Elkin says one of his aides has contracted COVID-19 and that he therefore will enter quarantine.

“According to the Health Ministry regulations I’m not required to quarantine as I wasn’t in contact with the aid in the past weeks. However, to be sure, I requested to undergo a test tomorrow morning and decided to be in quarantine until receiving the results,” Elkin writes on Twitter.

Elkin joins several other lawmakers currently in quarantine, including Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Public Security Minister Amir Ohana.

Likud Minister Ze’ev Elkin speaks at a ceremony at the Environmental Protection Ministry in Jerusalem on May 18 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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