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How the IDF Reduced Corona Deaths
(Jerusalem Post) Udi Shaham - The Alon Command Center in Ramle, which became fully active in November 2020, is the main IDF headquarters in the war against corona. It includes the investigations and contact chain-breaking division, in charge of reaching out to all contacts of those who became infected; the tests division, in charge of the entire tests apparatus; the isolation division, in charge of hotels used for quarantining, and for getting people from the airport to these hotels; and the laboratories division, in which the tests are decrypted and sent to the health funds. The center also created special mission teams including the group in charge of locating and mapping mass outbreaks in order to quickly break the infection chain. "We also established special teams that dealt with passageways such as airports, seaports and land borders, so we could monitor possible entrances of the virus from abroad, and contain it," said Command Center Head Brig.-Gen. Reli Margalit. There are also "education and community teams, which monitor outbreaks in the education system," and the variant team, to locate and map potential sources of spreading variants.