Public Health Services, hospital CEO enter quarantine after minister found sick

The head of the Health Ministry’s Public Health Services and the CEO of one of Israel’s largest hospitals are the latest senior government officials to enter self-quarantine after Health Minister Yaakov Litzman was found to have contracted the coronavirus.

Dr. Sigal Sadetzki of the Health Ministry says she will continue to work while in self-quarantine, adding that it is “the most effective way of stopping and slowing the pandemic.”

Zeev Rothstein, CEO of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital, says in a statement that he too is entering home quarantine after meeting with Litzman earlier this week.

“Though we maintained a distance of two meters and there was no physical contact between us — not even an elbow bump — I decided to enter quarantine,” Rothstein says.

He says that he will continue running the hospital from home.