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A new type of coronavirus test could turn the tide by revealing who has already recovered. Those immune people could go back to work first.

A new type of coronavirus test could turn the tide by revealing who has already recovered. Those immune people could go back to work first.

  New tests can identify people who have recovered from COVID-19 by searching for coronavirus antibodies in the blood. They could available in the US within weeks. Such tests… Read More ›

How to mitigate mild symptoms of COVID-19 at home, according to doctors

How to mitigate mild symptoms of COVID-19 at home, according to doctors

  Most people who are sick with COVID-19, the illness caused by the novel coronavirus, have mild symptoms and are advised to stay home and… Read More ›

Netanyahu orders increased restrictions as cases climb to 3,619

Netanyahu orders increased restrictions as cases climb to 3,619

Deaths rise to 12 • Haredim lead surge in new cases • Some 1,300 fines issued for defying directives.   Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered… Read More ›

Forensic pathologists beware: COVID-19 lives on in blood after death

Forensic pathologists beware: COVID-19 lives on in blood after death

‘It is more resilient in that it sticks around the dead body’: California’s Dr. Judy Melinek develops protocols for limiting exposure of medical staff to… Read More ›

Coronavirus is not the only deadly disease

Coronavirus is not the only deadly disease

Opinion: Many people require ongoing treatment for a host of ailments, but physicians are being told to delay care that Health Ministry officials deem not… Read More ›

Trillion-dollar US economic rescue package crashes in Senate

Trillion-dollar US economic rescue package crashes in Senate

Plan receives zero support from Democrats who charge it favors corporations at expense of US workers; 5 Republicans absent from the chamber because of coronavirus… Read More ›

Peru preventing Israelis from leaving Cusco to catch El Al planes home

Peru preventing Israelis from leaving Cusco to catch El Al planes home

Peru has prevented some 600 post army Israelis from leaving the city of Cusco, to head to the country’s capital of Lima so they can… Read More ›

Israel is in all-out war with the coronavirus

Israel is in all-out war with the coronavirus

Opinion: The government is busy patting itself on the back on the way the crisis is being handled, but there are quite a few changes… Read More ›

Rivlin negotiating unity government with Netanyahu, Gantz

Rivlin negotiating unity government with Netanyahu, Gantz

Majority recommends Gantz to form coalition.   President Reuven Rivlin brought together Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Blue and White leader Benny Gantz and the negotiating… Read More ›

China’s coronavirus past is Israel’s future

China’s coronavirus past is Israel’s future

Opinion: Experts speculated that the People’s Republic would be best place to handle a crisis like this, as opposed to Western countries, which were thought… Read More ›

UK departs from world in virus response, draws criticism

UK departs from world in virus response, draws criticism

Strategy based on presumption that most people will eventually get virus, and that severe measures unlikely to work; former health secretary concerned by lack of… Read More ›

CDC: Older Americans should consider stocking up on food and medications and avoid venturing out as coronavirus spreads

CDC: Older Americans should consider stocking up on food and medications and avoid venturing out as coronavirus spreads

  In a media briefing on Monday about the novel coronavirus, Dr. Nancy Messonnier focused on making recommendations for people at a higher risk of getting… Read More ›

Israel reportedly decides on self-quarantine for arrivals from NY, Wash., CA

Israel reportedly decides on self-quarantine for arrivals from NY, Wash., CA

Formal announcement on latest rules to fight coronavirus expected within hours; no flights from US to be banned; Holland added to list of restricted countries… Read More ›

PA on lockdown as coronavirus suspected in Bethlehem-area

PA on lockdown as coronavirus suspected in Bethlehem-area

Palestinian Health Ministry bans visitors from entering its West Bank territories, shutters all schools, mosques and churches in Jesus’ traditional birthplace after virus discovered at… Read More ›

STUNNING DEVELOPMENT: Rabbi Aharon Feldman Retracts His Opposition To Voting In WZO Elections

STUNNING DEVELOPMENT: Rabbi Aharon Feldman Retracts His Opposition To Voting In WZO Elections

  BALTIMORE — There has been a major development in the ongoing saga of the WZO election debate. VINnews can confirm that little to no… Read More ›

Travelers will face new restrictions and cancellations as coronavirus cases grow in the US

Travelers will face new restrictions and cancellations as coronavirus cases grow in the US

Travelers entering the United States will face new protocols as cases of novel coronavirus grow around the world. The US is expanding travel restrictions from… Read More ›

Israeli helicopters said to attack Syrian army posts along border

Israeli helicopters said to attack Syrian army posts along border

Three Syrian troops injured in missile strikes, Syrian state news says, hours after reporting on deadly drone attack in same area   Israeli aircraft attacked… Read More ›

The willful ignorance of lawmakers

The willful ignorance of lawmakers

Opinion: A Likud MK recently suggested that factory workers who have lost their jobs can earn thousands of shekels a month washing dishes in Tel… Read More ›

Israeli returning from Italy has coronavirus; visitors from there to be barred

Israeli returning from Italy has coronavirus; visitors from there to be barred

As first case in Israel outside of quarantine confirmed, interior minister says he will add Italy to list of countries from which travel is blocked… Read More ›

Israel Strikes Gaza, Syria After Palestinian Rockets Attacks

Israel Strikes Gaza, Syria After Palestinian Rockets Attacks

  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israel military said early Monday that it struck Palestinian militants targets in Gaza and Syria in response to rockets fired… Read More ›