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Health Ministry director defends extraordinary measures
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe director general of the Health Ministry defends Israel’s sweeping measures to slow the spread of the coronavirus — considered the most stringent in the world — from criticism that they could harm the economy.
“They said we were exaggerating,” Moshe Bar Siman Tov says.
“They said we were hysterical. If we hadn’t closed [Israel to arrivals from] Italy a few days ago, we’d be in the grip of a mass infection today.”
He also denies the suggestion that Israel is allowing travel from the United States, while blocking it from much of Europe, because of political considerations.
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