No new spike in virus infections, yesterday’s high due to late reporting, says NSC

23 April 2020, 11:36 am

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The National Security Council says that yesterday’s figure of 556 new confirmed cases of coronavirus infections, a multi-day high, was inaccurate and the real number of new cases was in fact 211.

The NSC puts the discrepancy down to the addition of delayed test results from the past several days, not a spike in new infections, according to a report by Channel 12.

Meanwhile, Channel 12 also reports that the Economy Ministry today gave the NSC a list of further restrictions that it seeks to have eased. Among them, the opening of additional businesses, allowing people to pick up takeout food from restaurants, and increasing the number of people allowed in a business establishment at any one time.