Horowitz: We’re preparing for unprecedented infection, lockdown not on the table

In a briefing of health officials to the media, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz says officials are preparing for higher infection rates than ever before amid Omicron’s spread.

But he insists things are “under control” and “we will continue living alongside the coronavirus.”

Horowitz says a lockdown “is not on the table.”

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz gives a press conference at Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beersheba, on November 30, 2021. (Flash90)

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