I'm at the airport in Switzerland and the El Al flight to Tel Aviv is departing shortly (well, a couple of hours) and check-in appears to be progressing as normal (no one in masks that I can see). Clearly, everyone on the flight has been to Switzerland - from this flight alone that is going to be at least 100 to quarantine. Seems weird that they've not cancelled all direct flights from the countries needing quarantines.
I did notice that there's a flight to Milan on the board that is cancelled.
El Al has to bring home israelis who are in switzerland (and europe), but non-israelis will not be allowed to board the plane and will not be allowed to enter the country if they're coming from switzerland (or france, spain, austria, germany, italy, japan, korea, hong kong, thailand, macau and china)
And el al will stop flights to switzerland as they have the other banned countries in europe as soon as all israelis who need a ride home have been brought home.
We have thousands in home quarantine. They are tracking every case and any contact with any case is ordered into quarantine.
Most of our cases are a result of travel to italy or visiting tourists.
We have one bus driver who's in serious condition after driving a tour bus full of sick greek tourists (they didn't know they were sick at the time).
And we have a number of people who are in quarantine after having come into contact with an american tourist (from new york) who was apparently sick when she was here.
The rest of those who are sick, either had been in italy or came into contact with someone who had been in italy.
The country is trying to delay outbreak to the extent possible.
It's not possible to maintain containment forever. Breach of containment is inevitable, but the longer you can delay it, the better off you are.
editing to add that we now have 21 cases. Definitely not good.
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2nd edit: there are rumors that the entire school system will be closed as soon as next week.....
