Netanyahu warns no further easing of restrictions without drop in infections

9 November 2020, 1:58 pm

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warns the government won’t ease additional lockdown measures until coronavirus infection rates further decline, amid concerns of a potential rise in new cases.

Speaking during a visit to a new COVID-19 testing station at Ben Gurion Airport, Netanyahu says ministers will convene in the coming days to deliberate whether to move to the third stage of the multiphase plan for rolling back restrictions put in place to contain the virus.

“If there’s no improvement in the figures, we won’t enter the third stage. Together we’ll take the steps that will ensure morbidity doesn’t rise because if it does, it rises like an airplane or missile taking off to the skies,” he says.