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Feb. 5, 2021
Israeli health officials understand it’s essential to reopen the country’s schools after weeks of lockdown but worry that more young people will be infected with COVID-19 unless the resumption of classes is done cautiously.
The schools will have very little time to prepare for resuming classes, and that may mean the reopening will take place too quickly and on too wide a scale.
“The ministry’s plan is cautious, but it’s not certain this is what will be approved or implemented in practice,” one senior official said, warning that an “uncontrolled, rapid exit” from the coronavirus lockdown “will certainly increase morbidity. I believe we’ll especially see a rise in serious cases among young people.”
Photo Credit: Mark Neyman (GPO)
President Reuven Rivlin receiving the Children in Israel 2021 report from Executive Director of the Israel National Council for the Child (NCC), attorney Vered Winderman, Jan. 31, 2021.
President Reuven Rivlin on Sunday received, for the last time in his term of office, the annual report Children in Israel 2021, which focuses on the effects of the coronavirus pandemic on Israelâs children. Executive Director of the Israel National Council for the Child (NCC), attorney Vered Winderman, and youth representative Shahar Bracha, also participated.
The report included some discouraging data regarding Israeli children in the time of the pandemic: