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Easing restrictions starts in Israel but testing bottleneck remains

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Published: 8 May 2020

Last updated: 4 March 2024

National Emergency Authority sounds note of caution, fears second virus wave will be twice as bad

Rolling out exit plan, Netanyahu unveils easing of lockdown restrictions (Jerusalem Post)
Reunions between first-degree relatives permitted, restrictions on individual movement lifted

National Emergency Authority said to fear 2nd virus wave will be twice as bad (Times of Israel)
TV report says forecast estimates number of cases in fall could reach tens of thousands, with thousands hospitalised and deaths ranging from several hundred to low thousands

Rightly or wrongly, Israel is revelling in that 'end of coronavirus' feeling (Haaretz)
AMOS HAREL: But the bottleneck in testing still needs to be unclogged, and the goal of quickly finding the people an infected person has been in contact with seems a distant dream

Photo: First day of school after the easing of restrictions in Jerusalem, May 3 (Emil Salman)
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