Israel: “War games” to face a new deadly covid variant
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett conducted a nationwide exercise on November 11 to test nationwide preparations to deal with the outbreak of a new lethal variant of COVID-19. A broad and complex exercise, as if Israel were preparing for some new event …
The exercise, which was conducted by the Director of Civil Protection of the Ministry of Defense Brig.-Gen. (ret.) Moshe Edri, will be held at the National Management Center in Jerusalem, designed for nationwide crisis management. Attendees will include the directors-general of the government ministry, representatives of professional agencies, the head of the national coronavirus project, the director of the public health service, the chairman of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Commission, and representatives of the National Security Council and the IDF (including Home Front Command). So it is an event that strictly involves civilian and military forces.
The exercise will be conducted in the format of a war game and will consist of a high-level inter-organizational simulation that will test the national management of a new strain, the "Omega" strain, which has yet to be discovered in the State of Israel. .
The exercise, theoretical, but complex and realistic. dealt with various aspects and tested the following components in extreme situations:
• Internal policy aspects: meeting restriction, movement restriction, quarantine policy, event plans (holidays, etc.), selected or national lockdowns / curfews, and tourism .
• Health aspects : monitoring, follow-up, supervision and warnings during the development of a new and dangerous variant, continuity, testing of the protection provided by vaccines, epidemiological investigations, tests, hospital capacity, designated procurement, execution of mass tests, vaccines (booster doses, other vaccines, etc.)
• Legal aspects : local or regional lockdowns / curfews, policy of restrictions, approval of designated regulations
• Economic aspects : assistance to the national effort, economic support to the population
• Aspects of public safety: application of quarantines, local blocks / curfews, application of regulations
• T he education system : protection of pupils' health, reduction of class sizes, closure of schools in outbreak centers, modification of educational plans (capsules, distance learning)
• Ben-Gurion international airport and border crossings : departure and arrival policy, control, selective closures.
• Public diplomacy and media a: inform the public and increase transparency, respond to the speech on the Internet, simulate the National Directorate of Public Diplomacy
A truly commendable effort, but why? Simple excess of prudence, or is it perhaps expected that some new variant not yet advertised will be born? Because Israel rarely wastes its resources, it only counts fictitious threats.
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