Health Ministry Director Professor Hezi Levy said Sunday that he was skeptical whether lockdown measured would be lifted after the High Holidays.
"I assume that we won't lift the lockdown immediately after Simchat Torah," he told Army Radio, adding that for that to happen, infection rates would have to drop below the 10% mark of all tests. The current infection rate stands at 15%.
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Deputy Director of the Ministry of Health Prof. Itamar Grotto claimed a few days ago that "the goal of the lockdown is to bring infection to 7%.
