Israel is requiring its citizens to stay home for seven days, the latest in a series of escalating steps to stop the spread of coronavirus. The announcement makes mandatory a series of recommendations from the Ministry of Health made earlier this week. Israel had already closed down leisure and entertainment venues, while encouraging citizens to stay home unless it was necessary to leave the house. The latest instructions, which Netanyahu said would be approved as emergency regulations, go into effect tonight. “We are telling the public — this time not in a recommendation but in a requirement — don’t leave home.

Source: CNN March 19, 2020 01:33 UTC