Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a series of new measures in connection with the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and said that there would be no total lockdown in the country, EDNews reports citing Sputnik.
According to the Israeli Health Ministry, 298 Israelis were diagnosed with the novel coronavirus, the condition of four of them is assessed as serious.
On 11 March, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease a pandemic.
More than 181,000 people in 150 countries and territories have been confirmed to have contracted COVID-19, and over 7,100 have died since the virus was first identified in the Chinese city of Wuhan, Hubei province, last December. In Europe, the most coronavirus-affected country is Italy.
As the COVID-19 outbreak is raging around the world, governments have advised citizens to stay at home, avoid visiting public places, including eating in cafes and restaurants and rely instead on delivery services.