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Thursday, October 8, 2020
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Thursday, October 8, 2020
Official in charge of tracing: We’ll be able to handle up to 6,000 daily cases
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe head of the Israeli military’s new contact tracing center, slated to begin leading epidemiological investigations starting November 1, tells Channel 12 the body will be able to handle up to 6,000 new daily infections, but not more.
“We built this ‘machine’ expecting a certain workload… We will not be able to handle every number of infected,” the Home Front Command’s Col. Reli Margalit warns.
He says it is necessary to bring illness down to “a sane number.”
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