The director-general of Israel’s health ministry suggested on Tuesday that the government’s latest decisions to lift coronavirus restrictions were influenced by politics and the upcoming March 23 election, the fourth in two years.
“We all assess that all these discussions are influenced and tainted by the panic over elections and are affected by it,” Health Ministry Director-General Chezy Levy told Radio 103FM in an interview.
Levy stressed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu so far “has been very careful, he does not want to open (the economy).”
“For weeks, he said he supports the views of the experts and is opposed to [Blue and White party head Benny] Gantz’s position in favor of opening. Now he joined him.”
The Health Ministry official also said that a fourth national lockdown was possible, despite the vaccination campaign.
“A fourth lockdown or various measures are not out of place,” he said, as the government begins to ease restrictions on the third lockdown.
Since mid-December, and thanks to a data-sharing agreement with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, Israel has vaccinated 4.7 million citizens with the first dose and 3.4 million with the two doses.
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