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With just 2.7% of tests returning positive as the country’s morbidity rates continued to drop on Wednesday, national coronavirus commissioner Prof. Ronni Gamzu says "Some of the classes will be able to open one week after we make the decision in the corona cabinet."

Cabinet to discuss sending children in first to fourth grades back to school, based on the numbers of new cases. Health Ministry report warns childen, usually asymptomatic, can be super-spreaders.

Professor Ronni Gamzu urges everyone to be tested, says epidemic will be defeated through "diagnosis, knowledge, and information."

Vaccine developed by the Israel Institute for Biological Research ready for clinical trials. Death toll from COVID jumps to 2,268 as overall number of cases drops from height of second wave. Cabinet to discuss lifting further restrictions.

Since the pandemic started, over 1.1 million people have died due to COVID-19, with the global fatality rate hovering around 2.8% of the total cases.

Hospitals around the world have looked for creative ways to circumvent the often heartbreaking challenges posed by the pandemic.

"If you were to actually look into my actions and decided to hold a professional debate, you would have discovered that my decisions were not driven by populism but by courage," Netanyahu says in special Knesset session.

Ministry data shows that just 892 new cases were diagnosed over the past 24 hours. With a positivity rate of 3.5%, morbidity at lowest rate since June sparking optimism that Israel has finally gotten the second coronavirus outbreak under control.