Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announces a strict new countrywide lockdown amid a surge in virus cases. Beginning Friday, schools, restaurants, malls and hotels among other businesses will shut down and restrictions on movement will be imposed.
FILE - In this Tuesday, Sept 8, 2020 file photo, ultra-Orthodox Jews keep social distancing and wear face masks during a morning prayer next to their houses as synagogues are limited to twenty people following the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus, in Bnei Brak, Israel.
“Our goal is to stop the increase and lower morbidity,” Netanyahu said in a nationally broadcast statement. “I know that these steps come at a difficult price for all of us. This is not the holiday we are used to.”The tightening of measures marks the second time Israel is being plunged into a lockdown, after a lengthy shutdown in the spring.
Israel has had more than 150,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and more than 1,100 deaths. Given its population of 9 million, the country now has one of the world’s worst outbreaks. It is now seeing more than 4,000 daily cases of the virus.
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