Plans are underway to provide beds for 2,000 corona patients. All elective hospital procedures are canceled, and Israel's private hospitals will handle surgeries scheduled for public hospitals. Sheba Medical Center has completed an underground facility for patients on ventilators.
Health Ministry: 20 people in serious condition, 37 people have recovered. Israel recorded its first fatality from COVID-19 over the weekend, an 88-year-old resident of Jerusalem.
“No one knows at the moment where this will go – we know how it started and don’t know how it will end,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says, imploring citizens to stay at home.
“The Holy Sepulchre is the ultimate place of hope. Hope that faith will defeat doubt, light will defeat darkness and life will triumph over death,” church leaders say in a statement.
Two Palestinians who had traveled from Pakistan and entered Gaza through Egypt test positive for the virus and are quarantined in Rafah. Palestinian health officials say 53 coronavirus cases have been confirmed in the West Bank.
