Virus czar said to warn of another lockdown within weeks if gov’t not careful

Virus czar Nachman Ash warns ministers if Israel emerges from the lockdown irresponsibly, a fourth closure will be necessary within weeks.

“If we emerge widely amid the current morbidity figures, there will be a fourth lockdown in two weeks,” Ash says, according to Channel 13.

Israel’s coronavirus czar Nachman Ash visits the Jerusalem Municipality, November 22, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

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