Hotovely came in contact with a deputy director-general in her ministry who was later diagnosed with the virus. She will need to be quarantined until April 1.
Hotovely is the sixth MK from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-center bloc in quarantine, joining ministers Tzachi Hanegbi (Likud), Arye Deri (Shas), Bezalel Smotrich (Yamina) and Shas MKs Itzik Cohen and Moshe Abutbul.The only quarantined MKs from the left-center bloc are Alon Shuster and Ran Ben-Barak.