Number of confirmed COVID-19 cases hits 337. Public instructed not to leave the house unless absolutely necessary. If the public fails to take Health Ministry directives seriously, "thousands could die," official warns.
"All countries should be able to test all suspected cases, they cannot fight this pandemic blindfolded," World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus asserts.
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.
Benny Gantz gets a majority of Knesset reccomendations, but his path to winning a confidence vote is unclear. PM Netanyahu offers rotation deal, but talks unravel over coronavirus crisis.
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.
