There are 100 people in Israel diagnosed with the coronavirus, with two patients in serious condition and three in moderate condition, Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Thursday. The condition of a 60-year-old employee of Ben-Gurion Airport hospitalized in Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv with the coronavirus deteriorated on Wednesday. He is currently unconscious and on a respirator. The condition of the second seriously ill Israeli, an East Jerusalem resident hospitalized in Poriya Hospital in Tiverya has slightly improved and his condition is stable. The patient contracted the virus after serving as a bus driver for a group of Greek tourists who had toured Israel and Egypt and were diagnosed with the virus upon their return to Greece. Greece announced on Thursday that one of the tourists, a 66-year-old man with underlying health issues, has died – Greece’s first fatality from the virus. There are currently 99 people in Greece who have been diagnosed with the virus. STAY UPDATED WITH BREAKING UPDATES FROM YWN VIA WHATSAPP – SIGN UP NOW Just click on this link, and you will be placed into a group. The Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer announced on Thursday that one of its emergency medicine doctors have been diagnosed with the coronavirus. The doctor returned from France on March 2, prior to Israel’s announcement that all travelers from the country must self-quarantine and worked one shift before entering self-quarantine. Anyone in contact with him will be instructed to self-quarantine. Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem announced on Thursday that everyone entering the hospital will have their temperature checked at the entrance. There are two children among the new cases, a 10-year-old resident of the central town of Azor who traveled to Madrid with his father to attend a soccer match, and his 11-year old sister who caught the virus from her brother or father who was also diagnosed with the virus. The new cases also include a 70-year-old American tourist in moderate condition. She is hospitalized in Poriya Hospital with breathing difficulties and viral pneumonia. Other new cases include two women in their 60s who recently returned to Israel from a trip to Moscow and New York and three people who recently returned to Israel from Germany. There are also five Israelis from Leshem, a yishuv in Shomron, who have been diagnosed with the virus. The five had been on a ski vacation together in Austria and have been in self-quarantine in an apartment outside the Shomron since their return. Entire schools have emptied due to teachers or students who have been diagnosed with the virus, requiring all students and staff in contact with the patient to self-quarantine,  including the dati leumi Makor Chaim yeshivah in Gush Etzion, whose Rosh Yeshivah, Rav Dov Zinger, was diagnosed with the virus, the Yoseftal Elementary school in the town of Azor, where the two children diagnosed with the virus attend, a junior high school in Kochav Yair and a high school in Modiin. A teacher in the Modiin high school was diagnosed with the virus on Wednesday and the Modiin municipality worked throughout the night on Wednesday and Thursday morning to contact 94 students and 80 staff members who are required to self-quarantine. The school has been closed until Sunday and is being thoroughly disinfected. Also, 60 students from a Karlin-Stolin yeshivah ketanah in Kiryat Sefer […]
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