Netanyahu and top Israeli leaders in quarantine after health minister tests positive for coronavirus

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in self-quarantine after the country’s health minister tested positive for the coronavirus.

The group was sent into quarantine on Thursday after Health Minister Yaacov Litzman was diagnosed with the COVID-19 virus. Those being told to isolate include Netanyahu, Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen, National Security Council Chief Meir Ben-Shabbat, and the Director-General of the Health Ministry Moshe Bar Siman Tov, according to the Jerusalem Post.

“We were prepared for such a possibility,” Siman Tov said in a statement. “I will continue to manage my team through digital means. … The need to go into isolation can happen to all of us and we must obey instructions.”

Litzman, the health minister who was sickened, is in good condition and is “feeling well,” according to the Health Ministry. Netanyahu ended his previous quarantine just days ago, which he entered after a close aide contracted the coronavirus.

Israel has had 6,211 cases of the coronavirus, 289 recoveries, and at least 33 deaths, according to the Johns Hopkins University tracker.

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