A growing number of Israelis hospitalized in isolation wards with a highly contagious disease. Defying the ban on public gatherings, parents of new IDF recruits crowd together outside IDF induction base.
Measures announced by Netanyahu on Monday include putting most the country's public sector on a one-month leave and reducing private-sector employees to 30% attendance at their workplaces.
Jewish federations, denominations, day schools, Hebrew classes and synagogues are adapting to weeks and possibly months of social distancing and quarantines due to the pandemic.
As Iranian death toll from virus approaches 1,000, President Hassan Rouhani urges population to stay home, observe health protocols.
The new plan would use mobile-phone tracking technology to give a far more precise history of an infected person's movements before they were diagnosed and identify people who might have been exposed. Unprecedented threat to public health justifies this extreme measure, PM says.
The first participant in an American clinical trial for a vaccine to protect against the new coronavirus will receive an experimental dose on Monday.
Although the prime minister is not symptomatic, experts conduct test to rule out infection after one of diagnosed carriers visited a venue that had been on the prime minister's itinerary.
Number of COVID-19 cases hits 200; 157 patients are hospitalized, two in serious condition. Nearly 40,000 Israelis are currently under home quarantine. Home Front Command calls up 2,000 reservists ahead of a potentially bigger role in coronavirus crisis management.
As part of the efforts to stem the coronavirus outbreak, the government "will very soon begin using digital means that we have been using in order to fight terrorism" to track patient, PM says, Shin Bet confirmed examining use of its technological abilities to fight coronavirus.
PM Benjamin Netanyahu announces partial shuttering of all non-essential establishments, including the school system, with aim of stemming the coronavirus outbreak. Number of cases hits 193. Damage to economy estimated at NIS 2 billion a week.
