After months of promises, the mandatory quarantine period will be shortened to 10 days this week, the Health Ministry announces.
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein has adopted the recommendation of professionals, a ministry statement says, and has decided that starting Tuesday at 6 a.m., anyone who needs to isolate will only have to do so for 10 days rather than the current 12.
As part of the new rules, people will have to test negative in two coronavirus tests, one taken at the beginning of the quarantine period and the second taken nine days after the initial possible exposure to the virus. There must be at least 24 hours between the two tests.
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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas arrives in Qatar for a state visit. He is scheduled to meet with Emir Thani bin Hamad Al Thani to discuss “issues of mutual concern” tomorrow in Doha.
The trip is Abbas’s third official international visit since the beginning of the pandemic: at the end of November, he traveled to Amman and Cairo for a quick two-day trip to meet with Jordanian monarch Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sissi. Aaron Boxerman I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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