Almost half of Israel’s coronavirus cases originated in the educational system, according to a government report submitted to the Supreme Court on Thursday, Ynet reported.
The report was submitted to the court following a lawsuit filed last week by a national parent leadership group demanding that 7th to 10th graders be allowed to immediately return to their classrooms. Students in 7th to 10th grade, the only Israeli students still at home, are scheduled to return to school on March 7 in green, yellow, and orange areas.
“The Health Ministry is aware of the difficulty created by the fact that students in grades 7-10, unlike children in lower grades, have studied the fewest amount of days during the past year in an in-person format,” the state wrote.
“At the same time, it must be clarified that this group of children are getting sick at a higher rate than the lower grades and currently cannot be vaccinated unlike students in 11-12th grades… Furthermore, as of February 28, infections in the educational system constitute about 48% of all infections in Israel.”
“Although it is clear that the steps taken are not easy, they are based on data and professional considerations, carried out for the purpose of protecting the public’s health.”
Israel’s Health Ministry reported 4,142 new coronavirus cases on Thursday morning and said that half of the new cases (50.1%) were diagnosed in those below the age of 20. Only 5.4% of infections were diagnosed in those over the age of 60.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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And how many of the “sick” are actually a “danger” to society? 0.01%? And who are they going to infect? The 88% of the 50+ year old that are vaccinated already?
Where is the data about the physical and emotional harm caused by school closures?
assuming that the report & data are accurate , what do u make of it? why would schools in the usa seem not to be a big source of spread?
This article, and the report to the Supreme Court it discusses, are seemingly gibberish. It starts off implying that half of all COVID cases during the entire pandemic (or at least a significant number of months) originated in the education system. Such a situation is certainly cause for alarm and appropriate action. But then it starts to get more honest. Since February 28, half the cases are from the education system. That’s about 3-4 days. And that’s after most adults are vaccinated but kids aren’t. And the kids who are or may be “infected” are generally asymptomatic, as is well known and clearly documented over the past year. So why exactly are we telling this to anyone, pray tell? Just some more classic dishonesty on the left…
Please! Don’t use tabloid style headline scares to close the schools! It should read “Nearly Half Of Israel’s CURRENT Infections Stem From Schools”. That is very understandable, since the older generations are mostly vaccinated.
Amazingly the country with the “best” immunization is STILL under lockdown and will continue to be as such, probably more than once or twice more as well!
How is it possible that in other countries they are showing almost NO transmission from students but in Izzy they are showing ? Something smells rotten in Denmark!
most of the spreaders are little kids who get it and do not suffer from it but pass it on. This is particularly common in charadi families that have many children.
But the secular press like times of Israel (toilet of israel) and Jpress look at the charadim as big spreaders and overlook the school children aspect.