The head of the union representing lab workers has shifted from complaining about not enough manpower to raising alarms about not enough coronavirus tests to run.
Everyone is complacent. The labs are standing stocked and ready, but we aren’t getting any swabs,” Asther Admon tells Army Radio.
“As areas emerge from the lockdown, it’s important that we do more and more tests to cut off the infection chain. We’re going back to the mistakes we made in May.”
Nearly 40,000 tests were run on Monday. At the height of the second wave, some 60,000 tests a day were run.
According to Channel 13 news, advisers to coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu have expressed concerns about gamed testing numbers as previously high infection areas show massive, unlikely drops in new cases, as well as undesirably low levels of testing.
Official data shows testing rates in many Haredi cities falling by half over the last two weeks. In other cities like Tel Aviv and Netanya, by comparison, testing rates have remained relatively steady.
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