The condition of an 11-year-old girl from Beitar Illit who contracted the coronavirus took a turn for the worse on Sunday and doctors sedated her and put her on a ventilator. The girl, who has no pre-existing medical conditions, was staying with her family at the Kinor “quarantine hotel” with her family in the Galil. On Friday, she felt unwell and was brought to Poriyah Hospital with a high fever and vomiting. Unfortunately, her condition deteriorated and she was transferred to the Rambam Medical Center Haifa on Sunday. According to news reports, her heart has been affected by the virus. The girl’s father, who also has been diagnosed with the coronavirus but is in light condition is with his daughter in the hospital.

Most of the fleet of ambulances belonging to Catskills Hatzolah were seen being disinfected on Sunday. In the attached image, you will see 10 of the 15 ambulances parked at the Catskills Hatzolah garage on Brickman Road in Fallsburg. As YWN had reported, at least four ambulances were driven down to New York City to assist in the incredibly high call-volume that was pouring into the Hatzolah Emergency Call Center during the heat of the COVID-19 pandemic. At one point Hatzolah across NYC was responding to more than 550 calls a day (actual ambulance responses) throughout all the various neighborhoods (Flatbush, Boro Park, Williamsburg, Crown Heights, Queens, Far Rockaway/Lawrence etc). During the peak of the crisis, the Hatzolah emergency hotline was fielding over 1,000 calls a day.

A man has been arrested after an attempt to kidnap an Orthodox Jewish woman in Manchester, UK. The incident happened in Park Lane, Broughton Park, at the heart of the Orthodox Jewish community. Greater Manchester Police says the disturbing incident occurred shortly after 7:15PM on Shabbos afternoon, when police were called to reports of an attempted abduction on Park Lane. An 18-year-old woman had been walking along the road with a friend when a silver car pulled up alongside them. The driver approached the woman and attempted to drag her into the car. The woman managed to alert a number of passers-by and the man fled in the car towards Bury New Road. A 47-year-old man was arrested nearby on suspicion of attempted abduction. He remains in custody for questioning. Enquiries are ongoing.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said Sunday he hopes to have a roadmap by June 1 on how to rebuild the city after the coronavirus threat subsides. The mayor, a Democrat, said at a news conference that city leaders he’s invited to help plan the city’s recovery should give him the roadmap by then. He said a full rebuild will take about 20 months. He also said the latest statistics on people being treated for COVID-19 continued to be stable or decline. The number of people in the city’s hospital intensive care units had dropped from 785 to 768. De Blasio said the city can’t begin reopening until decreases continue for 10 to 14 days. He said such a fall would signal it was time for the first steps in opening up. “The health indicators have to give us the all clear,” de Blasio said.

When United Hatzalah CEO Eli Beer landed in Israel on Wednesday after a prolonged battle for his life due to the coronavirus, Israeli media outlets were eager to interview him and Beer, despite his weakness, spoke to many of them. Beer told The Jerusalem Post that he had left Israel long before the risk of the coronavirus was on anyone’s mind on a fundraising trip, to India, California, Washington for the AIPAC conference, and other places. He then headed to Miami for Purim. He started feeling unwell at the end of Purim and a few days later he was rushed to the hospital when he started having trouble breathing. “They took an X-ray of my chest, and the doctor immediately put me in the intensive-care unit,” Beer told the Post.

translated by Rabbi Yair Hoffman for Five Towns Jewish Times To the Teachers of Torah, Roshei Yeshiva of our Holy Yeshivos, and Mashgichim Shlita, 2 Iyar, 5780 To our honorable friends, Geonim. Teachers of Torah, Roshei Yeshiva of our Holy Yeshivos, and Mashgichim Shlita, With the opening of the summer zman (YH: post-Pesach), with the help of Heaven, it is our obligation to assist our students may their lamps burn brightly with all our capabilities through shiurim, through discussions of vaadim as is the practice in each and every Yeshiva, through the telephone.

(By: Sandy Eller) With over nearly 11,000 coronavirus-related fatalities in New York City over the last few weeks, the New York City Department of Health has been facing an unprecedented volume of requests for death certificates. Hoping to streamline the process, the DOH has begun issuing death certificates only through its eVital electronic filing system, eliminating paper certificates completely at this time. The DOH rolled out eVital in October 2018 and while many doctors have signed up for the system which issues electronic death certificates, a large number have not, particularly within our community and have been continuing to issue hand-written death certificates.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning doctors against prescribing a malaria drug widely touted by President Donald Trump for treating the new coronavirus outside of hospitals or research settings. In an alert Friday, regulators flagged reports of serious side effects and death among patients taking hydroxychloroquine and the related drug chloroquine. The drugs, also prescribed for lupus, can cause a number of side effects, including heart rhythm problems, severely low blood pressure and muscle or nerve damage. In one such report, doctors at a New York hospital said that heart rhythm abnormalities developed in most of the 84 coronavirus patients treated with hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, a combo Trump has promoted.

(By Rabbi Yair Hoffman for 5TJT.com) The following is a translation of rulings from Rav Chaim Kanievsky shlita – who requested that they be publicized. Most apply to Eretz Yisroel; some apply specifically to Chutz La’Aretz. They deal with the obligations of VeNishmartem. The translator can be reached at yairhoffman2@gmail.com PARTICIPATION IN BRIS MILAH – There is no need to fulfill the Mitzvah of Bris Milah with a minyan of men. It is sufficient with three.

YWN regrets to inform you of the sudden petira of Dr. Marvin (Meir) Schick Z”L. He was 85. Dr Schick suffered a massive heart attack on Thursday afternoon at his home in Boro Park, and was Niftar shortly after. His countless Zechusim are impossible to publish in this short article, and books can and will be written of his incredible life of Chesed and support of Mosdos Hatorah. Reb Marvin was the longtime president of Yeshiva and Mesivta Rabbeinu Yaakov Yosef, and was the founder of the prestigious Edison Yeshiva, in Edison NJ. He was incredibly close to Hagaon HaRav Aharon Kotler ZATZAL, the Rosh Yeshiva and founder of Beth Medrash Govoha in Lakewood, as well as many other Gedolei Yisroel, through his participation in Chinuch Atzmai and Zeirei Agudas Yisroel.