I am currently stranded in Israel.
I can leave if I can find a flight (which there are some to the UK), but if I want to return I have to spend 14 days in isolation.
Why am I here? Because my 85 year old father who lives here, has had an operation and as his only child I have come out to care for someone who was until a week ago, totally independent.
There are others who would be willing to come out and also look after him (like my wife and a close friend), but they all face the same problem; when they arrive they face isolation, so they are no real help.
In the meantime, last night the country appeared to be shut down. No shopping centres open, no sports/health clubs open, no gatherings of more than ten people, and they should be at least 2m apart from each other. All houses of prayer closed as are restaurants and cafes.. Although there was an announcement that supermarkets, banks, petrol stations and pharmacies would be open there was some panic buying. Today however it was fairly calm and most smaller shops were open. In the centre of town it felt normal apart from closed cafes etc. However takeaways were busy, and some had put some chairs on the pavement....
But the effect (like in Spain) on the tourist industry is massive. Hotels are not able to open dining rooms so most are now empty. All the gap year students have left; friends who live here and went on foreign holidays are now returning to quarantine, with food packages supplied by children or neighbours. Two couples went on a cruise from Cape Town, up the east cost of Africa, to the Maldives, India and Sri Lanka. Nowhere permitted the ship to dock and the whole ship was forced to alight in Oman and find their own way home. After a disappointing holiday they now face 14 days in isolation.
However given the size of the population here, the number of patients with the virus is fairly low, the result of strict measures brought into force earlier than most European countries and according the Prime Minister last night, modelled on Taiwan.
Whatever, it is very isolating being here despite being able to drive around, when I really would like to be with my family (or them with me). A holiday here planned for three weeks time is now effectively off - my wife's flight cancelled and the children's likely to be in a few days.
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