Roni Numa, a former general who has led and assisted official efforts to deal with the coronavirus crisis in the Haredi community, says the infection rate has dropped significantly among ultra-Orthodox.
Numa puts the positive test rate at 12.8 percent, about double recent nationwide numbers, but well below rates of over 20% seen in the community in past week, which he says is due to a lag.
Sukkot at the Breslev synagogue in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, October 16 2008 (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
“We are seeing a delay in the downward trend among the Haredi public,” he says, according to Walla news. “The positivity rate … is indeed on a delay from the general population, but it’s going down.”
He adds that “we are still not far enough from Sukkot to understand what that holiday did to us, and so we need to understand if the holiday had a negative effect.”
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