Health Ministry head: When we drop to dozens of new cases a day we’ll ease rules

Health Ministry Director-General Moshe Bar Siman-Tov tells Channel 12 if in the next few weeks the country sees a drop in new coronavirus cases, from hundreds of new cases a day to dozens, the government will be able to raise the workforce allowed to work outside the home from 15 percent to 30% and permit people to once again venture out more than 100 meters from their homes.

He adds if numbers remain low after that, a phased return to school will be possible.

“Israel in a much better place than more or less all advanced countries we compare ourselves to,” he says.

Health Ministry director-general Moshe Bar Siman-Tov at a press conference at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, March 11, 2020. (Flash90)

“The steps we’ve taken have proven themselves up to this point.”

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