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On the presidential and emergency channels the following actions have taken place. “According to the FEMA COVID-19 Emergency Declaration,” [Release date: March 13, 2020] “On March 13, 2020, the President declared the ongoing Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic of sufficient severity and magnitude to warrant an emergency declaration for all states, tribes, territories, and the District of Columbia pursuant to section 501 (b) of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act, 42 U. S. C. 5121-5207 (the “Stafford Act”).” Additional information can be found at: https://www.fema.gov/news-release/2020/03/13/covid-19-emergency-declaration.
“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.
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