Professor Dror Mevorach, the director of Hadassah Ein Kerem's coronavirus department, told Galei Tzahal this morning that he does not see that the country has a viable option other than total lockdown in order to stem the spread of the coronavirus.
"The 'traffic light' program might have succeeded if it had been put in place a month ago," he said, "but at this point, when we have around 4,000 new cases being diagnosed every day - and around 3,200 of them aren't from localities with high rates of the virus - what is the alternative to lockdown? If someone else has a better idea, let him explain how it will work. Unfortunately, I expect the number of virus cases in the country's retirement homes to spike soon. I understand the hardship a lockdown causes, but what else can we do?"