JERUSALEM (AP) – Israeli health authorities have ordered everyone from a regional high school and dozens of soccer fans into home quarantine after their possible exposure to a teenage boy who tested positive for the coronavirus.
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The Health Ministry said it closed Brenner High School and told all students, teachers and staff members to quarantine at home until March 11. Some 1,000 students, including the boy, attend the school in central Israel.
The ministry also instructed dozens of people who sat in the vicinity of the boy at a Feb. 24 soccer game in Tel Avid to isolate themselves at home until March 8.
The boy apparently became infected while working at a toy store whose owner tested positive for the virus after returning from Italy.
Israel has confirmed 15 coronavirus cases in all and ordered several thousand people into home quarantine after possible exposure.