Health experts clash over lockdown as Israel struggles to contain new COVID wave
While medical advisors to ministerial committee on coronavirus back closure during September, when High Holidays fall this year, some argue measure has previously proven ineffective due to lack of compliance and enforcement, say vaccines best way to counter spread of virus
Adir Yanko |
Published: 08.05.21, 10:32
A dispute has emerged between health experts over a potential new lockdown next month as Israel struggles to contain a new surge of the coronavirus that has seen the national number of cases soar to the current tens of thousands.
At a coronavirus cabinet meeting convened Wednesday to discuss the rising rate of infection, medical experts warned of hospital capacity being exceeded and advocated for a lockdown in September to halt the spread of the more contagious Delta and Delta+ variants.
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