Pools, gyms likely to reopen today after Health Ministry fails to provide data

12 July 2020, 4:19 pm

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The Knesset’s coronavirus committee is expected today to cancel last week’s decision to shutter swimming pools and gyms to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

The head of the committee, Likud’s Yifat Shasha-Biton, says the restrictions will be lifted this evening after the Health Ministry failed to hand in data to support the closure about infection rates in pools and gyms.

“The Knesset isn’t a rubber stamp for the government,” says MK Yulia Malinovsky from the opposition Israel Beytenu party, a member of the committee. She says decisions must be made “on the basis of factual data rather than hunches.”