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Report: Senior health official says Gamzu could quit if politics trump health

6 September 2020, 6:19 pm
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A senior health official tells Ynet political considerations must not trump health needs, as the prime minister reportedly looks at walking back plans for locking down several cities with high infection rates.

“There must not be a surrender to political considerations, which will lead to Gamzu resigning,” the unnamed official says.

Netanyahu is under intense pressure from ultra-Orthodox leaders to cancel the planned local lockdowns, which will affect several Haredi towns.

A medical team works at the coronavirus ward of Shamir Medical Center, in Be’er Ya’akov, August 20, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

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