Prime Minister Naftali Bennett hints at future COVID restrictions and stresses the dangers of the Omicron variant during a hearing about the vaccination of children.
“This is a wave that we cannot stop, but we can delay and slow and diminish its strength,” Bennett says alongside Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton.
The prime minister warns that the Omicron variant “is unusually contagious. If during Delta we saw a doubling [of cases] every 10 days, now the average is [a doubling] every day or two or three days.”
“We know that those who are fully vaccinated, by and large, can be infected and infect others,” Bennett continues, “but those who are fully protected will get through it without any problem.
“It is not inconceivable that many of us will unfortunately be infected, but this is not a big deal, because we are vaccinated,” he says.
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