Acting Police Commissioner Motti Cohen has said that the police force is ready to step up enforcement of coronavirus restrictions and assist with implementation of the government's new "traffic light" program."Israel Police is prepared for and will carry out enforcement as required and in accordance with government guidelines," he said "We will invest all required resources in order to implement their decisions and supervise and enforce adherence."

In Mexico City, concrete building moves during 7.1 magnitude earthquake.

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Taiwan denies claims it shot down Chinese jet, while China maintains silence.

WHO (World Health Organization) has announced that it does not expect a vaccine against the coronavirus will be widely available before May, 2021.It should be noted that pharmaceutical companies are far more optimistic as to when such a vaccine will be available.

A professor at George Washington University has admitted that she falsely claimed to be black for years.Jessica Krug, who has taught history since 2012 and specialized in African-American history, imperialism, and colonialism, made her confession in a blog post, The Telegraph reports."To an escalating degree over my adult life. I have eschewed my lived experience as a white Jewish child in suburban Kansas City under various assumed identities within a Blackness that I had no right to claim: first North African Blackness, then US rooted Blackness, then Caribbean rooted Bronx Blackness," she wrote. She also called herself a "coward."

A new analysis of coronavirus data suggests that reduced use of ventilators leads to a drop in the death rate from the virus, The Telegraph reports.Data show that during a period when around 76% of patients were intubated within 24 hours of being admitted to an ICU, around 43% of ICU patients died, as opposed to around 34% during a period when Inly around 44.1% patients were intubated.Neither use of different drugs nor any other changes to clinical guidelines were registered during the periods concerned analysts believe the drop in death rates is a result of doctors' "informal learning" as they realized that patients In ventilators were faring less well than others In them.

MK Alex Kushnir (Yisrael Beytenu) has erupted in fury at the decision of the Ein Tzukim nature reserve to designate some its opening hours for separate swimming (only men or Inly women)."Why does a secular family who wants to go swimming have to check the calendar to find out which opening hours are for the general public and which are just for haredim?" he demanded. "The Parks and Nature Authority has bowed to pressure from the Betsalmo organization that appears to Inly care about human rights when they wear a yarmulke."He added that, "People should beware, as this is just a pilot scheme. If it works, then they're going to expand this to other sites as well. Welcome to a state run according to Jewish law," he concluded.