Hello I'm Nulam McGavran and we're bringing you BBC OS, conversations about coronavirus here on the BBC World Service. As COVID-19 continues to affect our lives, our relationships with each other are

changing and can be challenging, whether it's trying to maintain friendships or hoping to meet that someone special.

Through Tik-Tok, I met a woman who had a guy friend who was single and she connected the two of us he and I started talking.

Right, but I'm like how is this really like at the age of 41 this is what I'm doing.

Several countries are now experiencing an increased spike in COVID-19 cases. Israel has even introduced another national lockdown for at least three weeks to try and

contain the spread of the disease.

It's the first country to take this measure.

The communal act of prayer and the relationships forged through religion

is an important part of many people's lives.

And not everyone is happy about losing these social gatherings

as the lockdown coincides with several festivals

including Yom Kepur the holiest day of the Jewish calendar later this month.

I spoke to Professor Gabriel Isbicky, head of the pulmonary Institute at Jerusalem Shari Zadek Medical

Center about the situation.

During the first wave our situation in comparison with most of the other European and even

world countries was good to excellent I would say.

Then we opened all the restrictions we had quite quickly, too quickly in my opinion,

for this reason and maybe other reasons also we are in the middle of a second wave which is not so

good for or many reasons first before we have many patients who are positive

COVID. We are diagnosing a day,

people a day, which is quite a lot for Israel.

Total population of Israel is about 9 million.

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