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A new app developed in Israel in partnership with United Hatzalah will alert users if they have been in proximity with a confirmed coronavirus patient.
The app, called Track Virus, works by tracking the user's location since it was downloaded, crosschecking their path with those of confirmed coronavirus cases through the use of data listed by the Health Ministry. Users will receive a notification should they have been near a case.
Israel is expected to impose further restrictions and regulations on the public, limiting movement and employment as the coronavirus
crisis worsens, N12 reported Friday evening. On Saturday, a senior
official at the Health Ministry reportedly said discussions with other
officials that Israel should announce a lockdown and not wait, according
to Channel 13.
Health Ministry officials reportedly
said that no more than two people should be in a room together to
prevent the spread of the virus, according to N12. Additionally, Health
Ministry officials allegedly recommended a partial lockdown for at least
five weeks, while others warned that a lockdown could lead to economic
collapse.
We took a lot of heat for saying that. Some accused us of sucking up
to the liberal media, a group we spent three years despising. But it
wasn't exaggeration in the end. It took just four days to prove that all
of this was totally real. In fact, they were conservative estimates
that coronavirus isn't going away. We're going to cover it honestly. We
promise.
Beth Cameron wrote in an op-ed for The Washington Post
that the Trump administration's response to the novel coronavirus had
been "slow and inadequate," and suggested that the closure of the
Directorate for Global Health Security and Biodefense had contributed to
its "sluggish" response.
She added that the closure of the unit
left "an unclear structure and strategy" for coordination of efforts to
combat the damage of a pandemic.
President Donald Trump’s declaration of a
national emergency is designed to speed federal support to parts of
America that are struggling to prepare for a coming surge of COVID-19
cases, unlocking $50 billion in aid, giving hospitals and doctors more
freedom to handle a potential tsunami of sick patients and scrambling to
make tests available. In a Rose Garden press conference Friday, Trump
presented the emergency measures as proof that, “No nation is more
prepared or more equipped to face down this crisis.”
But for epidemiologists, medical experts and current and former U.S.
public health officials, the need for such extraordinary and hastily
organized steps is a tacit admission of failure, not just by Trump’s
White House but by the U.S. government over multiple administrations.
As the coronavirus pandemic gripped the country over the last several weeks, television viewers — especially those supportive of President Donald Trump —- had one place they could go to for some sense of solace: Fox News.
"If
you are over the mass hysteria, if you're over politicizing and
weaponizing of the coronavirus, you are not alone," Sean Hannity, the
highest-rated host on Fox News, assured the network's prime time
audience this week.
Indeed,
over the past several weeks, top hosts and personalities on the
conservative cable news network downplayed concerns about the virus,
baselessly accusing credible news organizations of overhyping the crisis
to hurt Trump politically.
Fake news stories have been circulating around the Internet pointing people to "cures" for the new coronavirus,
sharing advice and faking government announcements. The COVID-19
disease is caused by a virus named SARS-CoV-2 which is part of the broad
coronavirus family of pathogens.
At the time of writing, there
have been 38 deaths linked to COVID-19 in the U.S. out of 1,323
confirmed cases, with eight recoveries, according to Johns Hopkins
University, as shown in the graphic below provided by Statista.
But public health experts warn that even with the travel ban, the
virus will still spread. And travel bans risk discouraging people from
disclosing their previous countries of travel. The WHO says
that denying entry to passengers arriving from affected countries are
“usually not effective in preventing the importation of cases but may
have significant economic and social impact.”
"The US has done a very good job on testing. When people need a test they can get a test."
In
early March, the White House conceded that the United States did not
have enough testing kits. Some health centres have also reported
difficulties using them. The government says more than one million have
now been distributed, with more on the way.
