ISRAEL
Israeli School Principal & 9th Grader Have COVID-19, Over 1,000 Students & 5,000 Soccer Fans Isolated, Health Ministry: “Spread Of Virus Inevitable”
March 4, 2020 9:25 am
Prof. Itamar Grotto, the Deputy Director-General of Israel’s Health Ministry stated on Wednesday that the wide-scale spread of the coronavirus in Israel is inevitable after a vice-principal of an elementary school and a 9th-grade student were diagnosed with the virus, requiring over 1,000 students to be put into quarantine.
Israel’s Health Ministry announced on Tuesday night that three more Israelis were diagnosed with the coronavirus, raising the total number of cases in Israel to 15.
FRANCE
DIRECT. Coronavirus: 257 cases of contamination in France, 45 more
With now four deaths and more than 200 confirmed cases on its territory, or a doubling in three days, France is preparing for an intensification of the epidemic caused by the new coronavirus.