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Wednesday, June 17, 2020
Finance minister: Even if virus soars, we won’t impose nationwide lockdown
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFinance Minister Israel Katz says Israel won’t again impose a country-wide lockdown to stem the virus, citing the ailing economy.
“We won’t close anything across the board. We can deal with it in a pinpoint manner with enforcement and quarantine. We won’t close any industry across the board. Even if we experience what happened here at the beginning [a sharp rise in virus cases], there is no room for a general closure,” Katz tells Channel 13.
He says the “situation of the economy and Israeli society is likely the most dire in the history of the state, or at least in past decades.”
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