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“The COVID-19 viral disease that has swept into at least 114 countries and killed more than 4,000 people is now officially a pandemic, the World Health Organization announced Wednesday. "This is the first pandemic caused by a coronavirus," WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a briefing in Geneva. It's the first time the WHO has called an outbreak a pandemic since the H1N1 "swine flu" in 2009. Even as he raised the health emergency to its highest level, Tedros said hope remains that COVID-19 can be curtailed. And he urged countries to take action now to stop the disease. "WHO has been in full response mode since we were notified of the first cases.”” Additional information is contained at: https://www.npr.org/sections/ goatsandsoda/2020/03/11/814474930/coronavirus-covid-19-is-now-officially-a- pandemic-who-says.
“Prominent national-religious rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu has called for Israelis to join him at the Western Wall on Sunday afternoon for a mass prayer rally on behalf of those infected with the coronavirus.
Eliyahu, the head of the Community Rabbinical Association and chief rabbi of Safed, is organizing the gathering together with the Israeli branch of the Orthodox Union, an American Modern Orthodox synagogue network.
“As the sons of the patriarch Abraham, we have an obligation to everyone created in the image of God. The job of the Jewish people is to pray for the good of the entire world,” he said in a statement calling for people to gather Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Jerusalem holy site. “The fact that our prayers have a huge impact requires us to pray for peace and
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