From Health minister signals lockdown to be extended
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleTwo days before Israel enters a three-week lockdown, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein warns it will take time to bring down the infections.
“I am telling you honestly — anyone who thinks the situation will be encouraging in two weeks is mistaken,” Edelstein tells the Ynet news site. “We will be dealing with these restrictions for a while, and as I said, we may tighten them further.”
The health minister also defends the government’s decision to close schools a day early, from Thursday.
He says tens of thousands have been sent into quarantine and thousands have been infected in cases linked to schools, which opened just two weeks ago.
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