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Tuesday, March 31, 2020
From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Travelers from US allowed to skip stay at quarantine hotel — report
Hundreds of travelers on a plane from New York were not sent to a special quarantine hotel after landing in Israel this afternoon, Channel 12 news reports.
The channel described the travelers as all ultra-Orthodox. It does not provide details about the flight.
New York City has become one of the world’s largest hotspots for the novel coronavirus, killing over 900 people and sickening tens of thousands more. The city’s close-knit ultra-Orthodox communities have been particularly hard hit by the virus.
Under new rules that went into effect Saturday, all travelers from the US must spend 14 days in a quarantine hotel upon landing in Israel.
