Ministers are expected to vote tonight to lift red-city restrictions on all locales except for one Jerusalem neighborhood, Channel 12 news reports.
According to the report, coronavirus czar Ronni Gamzu will recommend that ministers ease the closures on towns still labeled red under the traffic light plan, in light of sinking infection rates there. That will leave Ramat Shlomo in East Jerusalem as the only red area in the country.
Bnei Brak has seen an 85% drop in infections over the last two weeks according to the report. However, Health Ministry figures show it still had over 650 infections over the past week, the second-highest figure in the country. On October 4, that number was over 3,400.
Reports have indicated a slowdown in testing in red zones, as they strive to be upgraded out of the most severe restrictions. According to Yedioth Ahronoth, the city of Bnei Brak has refused to allow Magen David Adom to set up a rapid testing enter in the city.
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