In Israel, an interdepartmental business game began on Thursday, during which officials of various ranks work interaction when making decisions in the event of a new outbreak of morbidity caused by more contagious and deadly virus. According to the “Legend” of the game, this virus is called “omega”.
Israeli edition vesty.co.il writes that it is a large-scale preparation for the most unfavorable scenarios for the development of an epidemic environment that requires emergency quarantine measures. The guide of the game is carried out by Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, and discussions of actions and decisions within the framework of various scenarios of the situation of the situation are held in a situational headquarters specially created in Jerusalem.
Depending on the proposed scenario, the outbreak of the incidence, provoked by the Omega conditional virus, the officials are developing protocols of decisions on restrictions in the areas of tourism, air traffic, education, cultural and sports life. At the same time, the readiness of medical institutions to a new, larger wave of the epidemic is checked: their need for life-containing equipment is specified, as well as the possibility of creating additional healing areas, etc.
“Also, as the” Delta “strain arose, there may be other, even more deadly and infectious strains capable of bypassing the vaccine,” said Bennet, adding that “instead of sitting and hopeful to us You should be ready for any scenarios and be sure that all agencies, all hospitals know how to act in an extreme epidemic situation, and that scientists carefully track each appearance in the world the strain of the virus, even small enough. “