Bennett claims bio lab has found 3 more antibodies that ‘neutralize’ coronavirus

7 May 2020, 4:12 pm

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Defense Minister Naftali Bennett claims Israel’s secretive Biological Research Institute has found three more antibodies that “neutralize” the coronavirus, after the laboratory announced earlier this week it had isolated one.

Bennett, who visited the institute in Ness Ziona earlier today with President Reuven Rivlin, says he asked the scientists to “move as quickly as possible” to develop a full treatment and says he instructed the Defense Ministry “to spare no money or resources” to do so.

“I view this as Israel’s ‘Manhattan Project’ to defeat the Covid-19 pandemic,” he writes in a series of tweets, referring to the United States’ World War II-era program to develop nuclear wepaons.