Corona Cabinet approved an increase in the maximum occupancy of a street store to 10 shoppers

In a telephone poll Wednesday, the Corona Cabinet approved an increase in the maximum allowable occupancy of a street store and a store operating in a shopping complex according to the size of the store - so that the number of customers allowed is per person per 7 square meters of store space and no more than 10 people. Will be less than 4 people as approved so far.
The Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, welcomed the move and said that "this is an important decision by the Corona Cabinet." He said, "This is a necessary decision in light of the density of queues and the need to facilitate customers and business owners. It is now possible to open markets and malls and allow trade in the economy and many workers to return to full activity."
Yesterday, it will be recalled, the shopping centers opened - and long and crowded queues were observed outside the shops trying to meet the conditions of the purple mark. Following this, the Ministry of Health recommended to the Corona Cabinet to consider the store areas so that larger businesses could accommodate more customers. Crowded queues were recorded even after street shops opened.
The decision in the Ministry of Health was made after MK Asher earlier approached the head of public health services, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, and demanded that a "store opening rank be considered, according to which stores of up to 50 square meters will remain with 4 buyers and over 50 square meters with a number More likely. He said, "When you see the queues outside of hundreds of people, and a guard who needs to check that they are not rivals - maybe you need to think about a correction on this issue as well."
"Now that the cabinet has decided to open the 'Bigs', there is room to think about a hierarchy," Elrai Price stressed. "The trade was only supposed to open in the third stage because the epidemiological idea behind it is that in the second stage businesses will be opened with a small and changing amount of people.
Dr. Elrai Price added that "the Ministry of Health is working on developing a barcode scan (QR) that will be placed at the entrance to the stores and will allow information to be entered by those who enter to cut chains and open stores for a larger number of customers."
Apart from the shops, other facilitations decided today are the opening of the zoos and safaris, in addition to the opening of hotels, restaurants, attractions and commerce in Eilat and the Dead Sea subject to the layout of the Green Islands. Arrival in Eilat and the Dead Sea, it will be recalled, is conditional on a positive corona examination from the 72 hours before the vacation.
In addition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Bnei Gantz have agreed in recent days that the malls' representatives will formulate a pilot to operate one mall in a limited way. Subject to its success, it will be decided on the date of opening the malls later.
According to the curriculum of the Ministry of Education approved by the Cabinet, grades 1-4 are studied four days a week. Classes are split so that the number of students does not exceed 20 per class, except for exceptions that allow up to 10% of classes to study in groups of up to 24 students, giving priority to institutions located in areas with low morbidity rates.
5th-6th grade students will return to classes next Tuesday (November 24), and 11th-12th grade students will return Tuesday the following week (December 1st).
According to the regulations, all workplaces that do not receive an audience will be allowed to operate at a rate of 100% in accordance with the purple mark approved by the government. For the other businesses, which are open to the general public, public reception is prohibited except for exceptions set forth in the regulations of the Ministry of Health, and deliveries from all businesses.
Despite recent relief, restaurants, eateries and banquet halls have remained closed. However, restaurants and eateries can operate a take-away service from the business, and events are allowed for up to 20 people in an open space and ten people indoors.
Meanwhile, earlier today, the Ministry of Health updated that from midnight to 6:22 PM, an additional 426 corona patients were diagnosed in Israel - a rate of 1.7% positive tests. 539 corona patients are hospitalized in Israeli hospitals, 308 of them in critical condition. 125 patients are connected to respirators. Another patient died today, and the death toll since the outbreak is 2,738. Three of the respirators are boys.