Thursday, March 12, 2020

Coronavirus Updates 3/12/20

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5:45 pm

Mir Yeshiva Yerushalayim will set up satellite locations in the US for bochurim to finish the zman. There will be a live-stream video shiur from The yeshiva and learning will go on for 2 sedarim daily.


5:25 pm
Satmar only those under 60 years old can use the mikvah
Frum schools in Baltimore are closing for 2 weeks

Stores in Lakewood running low on Meat and chicken as people panic amid rumors that some patients in Lakewood tested positive. Ocean county Health Dept has not reported or confirmed.

4:45 pm
-Today was the Worst day for the stock market since the crash in 1987
- Trump may restrict domestic travel

-3 Seminaries in Israel chartered a flight and sending the girls home. (BJJ, Seminar)
3:30 pm

NJ now has 29 positive cases
Lakewood school heads meet prepare for eventually if they will have to shut down

NY bans all gatherings of 500 people or more and rooms may only be full to half capacity a room allowed 200 can only have 100

Schools in EY will be closed till after Pesach

NJ Gov Murphy all Public gathering of more than 250 should be cancelled. It is only A recommendation  not Mandatory.

Lakewood stores limiting cases of water and tissues.
Pesach Program in Arizona canceled.

Unconfirmed reports circulating of suspected coronavirus patients in Lakewood, no statement issued from Ocean county board of health

Lakewood school district approved the purchase of up to 500 new Apple iPADS for students to study from home in case schools shut down because of coronavirus. It will cost $200,000 subject to survey results  and availability of funds.

School buses will deliver meals to all eligible students  each morning dropping off  a brown bag breakfast and lunch parents will pick it up at the designated bus stops.

Torah Umesorah hosts conference call for yeshivas and school principles  with infectious disease experts recommending that schools close but will be up to each one to make the decision.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky  daily kabolas kahal and reception of visitors at his home is temporarily canceled, due to a Health Ministry directive banning congregations of over a hundred people.

Jackson busing will be delayed tomorrow morning for 2 hours as officials meet about the virus.


5 comments:

  1. these iPads and laptops will never be heard or seen from again

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  2. Is it one per address? Or one for each of the 5 families living at each address?

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  3. If a family has Internet access, they also have a device to use the internet, no need for the school to provide one.

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  4. Hillel Yeshiva in Deal closed school

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  5. 400 ipads for 200 GRAND - thats 400 a piece . can anyone tell the town that walmart has them for under 200 ? i'm talking retail

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