JERUSALEM (JNS) — Israel’s Health Ministry on Wednesday issued a directive ordering all 1,150 students at a high school in Givat Brenner, as well as dozens of people who attended a recent soccer match in Tel Aviv, to self-quarantine immediately due to possible exposure to the coronavirus. The move comes after the ministry announced on […]

CALIFORNIA (VINnews) – Los Angeles-area officials declared an emergency, saying they’ve discovered six new COVID-19 cases in the county over the last 48 hours. “I have just signed a proclamation declaring the existence of a local emergency. I want to reiterate that this is not a response rooted in panic,” Kathryn Barger, chairwoman of the […]

ROME (AP) – Italian media say the Italian government has ordered schools nationwide to close for the next two weeks to limit the spread of the coronavirus, but the country’s education minister says a final decision on the closure not yet been confirmed. State-run RAI, the ANSA and LaPresse news agencies reported Wednesday that Italian […]

JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli health authorities have ordered everyone from a regional high school and dozens of soccer fans into home quarantine after their possible exposure to a teenage boy who tested positive for the coronavirus. The Health Ministry said it closed Brenner High School and told all students, teachers and staff members to quarantine […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — As reported yesterday by VINnews, a Yeshiva University student was under quarantine after being suspected of contracting the coronavirus. Today it has unfortunately been confirmed that the student has indeed tested positive for the virus. The following notice on the matter was released by Yeshiva University: S: COVID-19 Update We have […]

LONDON (AP) — British authorities laid out plans Tuesday to confront a COVID-19 epidemic, saying that the new coronavirus could spread within weeks from a few dozen confirmed cases to millions of infections, with thousands of people in the U.K. at risk of death. Officials hope the most drastic measures won’t be needed. Britain may […]

MENLO PARK, CA (VINnews) — Mark Zuckerberg has spoken out amid the coronavirus outbreak, to address Facebook’s role amid the coronavirus outbreak. In a Facebook post on Tuesday evening, Zuckerberg talked about how Facebook is combatting the spread of false information, as well as how Facebook data is being used to understand how the virus […]

NEW YORK (JTA) — For the past three years, Esther Possick and her son have avoided the hassle of hosting Passover at their Long Island home by traveling to kosher hotels in foreign locales. In 2017, they spent the holiday at a resort in Stresa, a resort town on Lake Maggiore in northern Italy not […]

SEATTLE (AP) — Tensions over how to contain the coronavirus escalated Tuesday in the United States as the death toll climbed to nine and lawmakers expressed doubts about the government’s ability to ramp up testing fast enough to deal with the crisis. All of the deaths have occurred in Washington state, and most were residents […]

NEW YORK (VINnews) — In a letter published by Yeshiva University, it is revealed that 2 of their students are currently under quarantine for suspected Coronavirus. The letter reads as follows: Dear Yeshiva Community, We are writing to share two pieces of news related to COVID-19. We have learned that one of the children of […]