Ex-Health Ministry director: There won’t be a 2nd wave, but we’ll have to live with virus

31 May 2020, 8:18 pm

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Former Health Ministry director Gabi Barabash appears to criticize the government’s approach to reopening schools across the country, which has led to an outbreak at over a dozen institutions. “No other country opened schools the way we did, with 30 kids in classrooms,” he tells Channel 12.

“I don’t think we’ll experience a second wave. This isn’t 1918,” Barabash clarifies. “We are going to have to live with this virus. It’s not going away.”

“Apart from the outbreak in Jerusalem, it’s bubbling all over the country. A case here. A case there. It’s very worrying. I don’t think we’re going to have to go back to lockdowns. Proper social-distancing is apparently enough — if we stick to it,” he continues.