Health
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The reports of Israeli public companies holding significant activity in China indicate that there is currently no significant impact on business. However, the expected harm is mainly in the tourism sector of Chinese who will not come to Israel. It is estimated that about 24,000 tourists from China will be canceled in the next two months. Most of them spend an average of seven nights per night. This is a loss of close to 170,000 overnight stays in February and march
Feb 3, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
25% of fathers say they do not exercise their parenting rights because of the corporate culture that does not allow them, according to a survey conducted by the Division for Gender Equality at the Civil Service Commission, on the occasion of Family Day held on Wednesday. Many fathers have stated that they fear the response in the ministry if they start taking advantage of the parenting rights they are entitled to. "I feel that fully utilizing parenting rights will prevent me from performing my job well and therefore choose to take advantage of only some of the rights," says a father who...
Feb 26, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
After four years of research funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology, researchers at the Migal Institute of Coronary Virus Vaccine (IBV) developed successfully in preclinical trials and genetically modified for the corona virus vaccine. Minister of Science and Technology Ophir Akunis welcomed the new revelations of the study: "Hope and believe there will be further progress soon." Minister Akunis instructed his office manager to quickly promote possible collaborations that would enable vaccines for humans as soon as possible
Feb 27, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
Two more Israelis were diagnosed with Corona virus - the Health Ministry announced Friday. The two, aged 50, are residents of the center of the country who are currently living in isolation. One turned on February 27 from Madrid, Spain, and the other returned on March 4 from Zurich, Switzerland. As a result, the number of infected persons in Israel rose to 19. The Ministry of Health announced that the exact flight numbers and locations where the patients were staying will be published later. Yesterday, two other patients became aware of the infection. One of them, a tourist bus driver from...
Mar 6, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The government (Sunday) approved the use of surveillance through cell phones to fight Corona. According to officials of the Justice Ministry, according to the approved outline, both the paths of the verified patients' paths through their cellular devices will also be reviewed and an attempt will be made to locate people who were around and possibly infected. In the first circle, to be conducted by the police, patients will be asked to confirm their cellular examination to check where they were - instead of the questioning conducted today by a medical staff member. In some circumstances,...
Mar 15, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
Approximately 5,000 Alel employees are leaving the USSR today after the workers' committee has withdrawn its opposition to the move. At the same time, progress has been made in committee and management relations, and talks have been taking place between the parties in recent days. Despite El Al's publications 10 days ago regarding the removal of workers from the USSR, nothing was actually done due to the opposition of the committee.
Mar 17, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
Conflict, urgency, shouting and great disappointment: While more than a thousand backpackers are making their way back from South America back to the country, 23 Israelis remain in Lima the capital of Peru after finding no place on flights. Four EL AL planes and another Lattam leased aircraft that took off from Cusco are involved in the complex flight of Israeli backpackers. Last night, after two El Al planes took off from Lima airport, it became clear that some Israelis had no place in the planes. It also turned out that many of those who arrived at the airport were not registered at all...
Mar 19, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
The government-approved emergency restrictions last Thursday, as part of the fight against the spread of the Corona virus, will officially take effect as of Sunday at 8 a.m., which includes some changes from the document released this past week. Before the official document, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu discussed Saturday's need to tighten restrictions in order to reduce house exits. This, after hundreds of civilians in the middle of the country took to the streets, and spend the beach and municipal parks - despite the Ministry of Health's anti-rallying guidelines. At present,...
Mar 22, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
65 young Chabad followers who returned to Israel last week on El Al flight from New York were diagnosed on Sunday as corona virus carriers. The flight had 49 additional passengers and eight of them are still awaiting the results of their tests. In which about 8,000 corona cases have been diagnosed so far. As they were getting off the plane, passengers were waiting for isolated buses to transport them to the Dan Hotel in Jerusalem, the complex opened by the Ministry of Defense for light corona patients. For a whole day, the young people stayed there without the Ministry of Health conducting...
Mar 22, 2020
by Ifi Reporter
Category: Health
A report released by the Knesset Research and Information Center on Thursday reveals that there are only 1,437 available respirators in Israel. According to data transmitted to the Knesset by the Ministry of Health, at present there are 2,173 respiratory devices in Israel, of which 708 are used and 28 are abnormal. The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Seaman Tov, told the committee this morning that another 70 machines were ordered from the private medical system and 900-800 machines from the IDF. He added that there would eventually be 2,864 available machines, but he...
Mar 26, 2020