The Yahrzeit of COVID | The Jewish Press - JewishPress com | Harry Maryles | 17 Adar 5781 – February 28, 2021 jewishpress.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from jewishpress.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Shaare Zedek hospital team members wearing safety gear as they work in the coronavirus ward on January 27 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
1. Back on the up and up: Four weeks into Israel’s third lockdown, not only is the infection rate not going down, there are signs it may be going up.
The Ynet news site reports that the R0, or reproductive value, of the coronavirus pathogen is inching up toward 1, the number at which infection numbers rise again, and has reached it already if you count only non-Haredi Jews. (Haredi Jews actually have the lowest R0, more on that below.)
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Feb. 1, 2021
The Black January of Israel’s coronavirus crisis ended with especially gloomy sights. More than 1,400 people – an average of more than 45 a day – died during the toughest month since the virus landed here. Added to this are the horrid reports from the hospitals, which are coping with an unprecedented number of people who have contracted the virus. And as if to emphasize the government’s dysfunctional handling of the crisis, there was Sunday’s mass funeral in Jerusalem, in which tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) men gathered in violation of the lockdown, without a trace of fear of police enforcement.
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