The public sector will cut its workers to a minimum, and the private sector may continue to work normally, but it will not be allowed to receive customers.
“These measures are very costly for all of us,” said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, after announcing the confinement and imposed rules.
“But only if we follow the rules, and I trust that we will, we will defeat the virus,” he added, before boarding the plane that will take him to Washington, in the United States, to sign, on September 15, at the White House, the diplomatic ties with the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The decision to apply a new confinement was reached after a meeting of the government ministers, which lasted more than seven hours and which, according to local media, caused screams and cross accusations, was also marked by the resignation of the Minister of Construction and Housing, the ultra-orthodox Yaakov Litzman, as well as several ministers who warned of the damage that confinement will cause to the economy.
The covid-19 pandemic has already claimed at least 921,097 deaths and more than 28.8 million cases of infection in 196 countries and territories, according to a report by the French agency AFP.
In Portugal, 1,867 people died from 63,983 confirmed cases of infection, according to the most recent bulletin from the Directorate-General for Health.
The disease is transmitted by a new coronavirus detected in late December in Wuhan, a city in central China.
After Europe succeeded China as the center of the pandemic in February, the American continent is now the one with the most confirmed cases and the most deaths.
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