{"id":43790,"date":"2020-09-13T21:23:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43790"},"modified":"2020-09-13T21:23:39","modified_gmt":"2020-09-13T21:23:39","slug":"uae-coronavirus-cases-drop-after-topping-1000-a-day-earlier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=43790","title":{"rendered":"UAE coronavirus cases drop after topping 1,000 a day earlier"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"60\">\n<p>\nJERUSALEM: Israel will enter a three-week nationwide lockdown starting on Friday to contain the spread of the coronavirus after a second- wave surge of new cases, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.<br \/>During the lockdown, which comes during the Jewish high-holiday season, Israelis will have to stay within 500 meters of their houses, but can travel to workplaces that will be allowed to operate on a limited basis.<br \/>Schools and shopping malls will be closed but supermarkets and pharmacies will remain open. The public sector will operate with fewer staff, but non-governmental offices and businesses will not have to close, as long as they do not accept customers.<br \/>Indoor gatherings are limited to 10 people and no more than 20 people outdoors.<br \/>\u201cI know those measures will exact a heavy price on us all,\u201d Netanyahu said in a televised address. \u201cThis is not the kind of holiday we are used to. And we certainly won\u2019t be able to celebrate with our extended families.\u201d<br \/>The Finance Ministry said the lockdown will cost the economy, which slipped into a recession in the wake of the virus, an estimated 6.5 billion shekels ($1.88 billion).<br \/>Netanyahu, who has faced increasing criticism over his handling of the coronavirus crisis, said he instructed his finance minister to come up with a new economic package to assist businesses hurt by the lockdown.<br \/>Israel declared an even tighter lockdown in April when the virus first arrived, after which daily cases dropped to low double digits among a population of nine million.<br \/>But as the economy reopened, daily infections jumped, passing 4,000 last week. On Saturday, 2,715 new cases were reported. Since the outbreak began, 1,108 people have died.<br \/>The country\u2019s health system \u201craised a red flag\u201d a few days ago, spurring the government to act, Netanyahu said.<br \/>The director general of the Health Ministry, Hezi Levy, said in a radio interview earlier on Sunday that \u201cdozens of localities are being sucked into the circle of morbidity.\u201d<br \/>\u201cWe have to impose severe restrictions, but they will be able to stem this wave and not bring us to the brink of an abyss,\u201d Levy said. ($1 = 3.4566 shekels)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM: Israel will enter a three-week nationwide lockdown starting on Friday to contain the spread of the coronavirus after a second- wave surge of new cases, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday.During the lockdown, which comes during the Jewish high-holiday season, Israelis will have to stay within 500 meters of their houses, but can&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spotlight_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}