The rapid increase of coronavirus infections in Jerusalem schools has raised new concerns over a potential second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel, barely a week after Israel's economy was allowed to resume normal operation.
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As of Sunday, more than 180 pupils and more than 15 teaching staff have been infected by the virus in one school, the Hebrew Gymnasium high school in the Rehavia neighborhood in the city.
An additional 180 people from another school, Hartman High School, were sent into self-isolation because they were in contact with a teacher from the first school. Another student in a third school was also diagnosed as a positive carrier.
Carriers of the virus have been confirmed in a total of eleven educational institutions in the city. Extensive testing is being carried out among the students and teaching staff in the city by municipal and Health Ministry officials.
Meanwhile, some 200 students and staff from a Beersheba school have been sent to isolation after potentially being exposed to a coronavirus carrier. The carrier was apparently exposed to the mother of a 7th grader.
