A vote in the Knesset on forming a committee of MKs to deal with the coronavirus that was set for Monday was postponed until after the March 2 election.
Blue and White MK Zvi Hauser, who initiated the effort to form the committee, said it was unfortunate that a consensus could not be found to deal with such a truly urgent issue.
The first coronavirus case surfaced in December in the city of Wuhan, in China’s Hubei province. Currently, 70,548 cases have been confirmed along with 1,770 deaths, though only three deaths have occurred outside of mainland China.Celia Jean, Gil Hoffman and Reuters contributed to this report.