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Netanyahu: Decision on lockdowns due to recent increase in infection rate

3 September 2020, 6:05 pm 0 Edit

Prime Minister Netanyahu releases a video statement confirming the so-called coronavirus cabinet’s decision to impose lockdown measures on “red” cities with high infection rates.

Netanyahu says over the past month, the morbidity rate has been high — “even very high” — but has remained stable.

“In recent days a rise began and [there was] a very dramatic rise yesterday,” he says.

He adds: “Today we made a decision to make an immediate blocking effort against this rise in morbidity. We made a decision to apply lockdowns on red cities.”

The prime minister urges Israelis to work with authorities “to block this morbidity.”

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