Speaking to Yisrael Hayom, a confidant of the incoming coronavirus project manager, Prof. Nachman Asch, said that in his opinion, Asch would seek to have a third nationwide lockdown imposed and would recommend it within "the next few weeks."
"He's going to be making a lot of significant proposals very soon," the source said. "He really believes in lockdowns - he's exactly the opposite of Ronni [Prof. Gamzu, the outgoing project manager] in that respect. He is very conservative in his approach and believes that lockdowns are the solution - he also believes that there's no way of averting a third one. He thinks that neither a vaccine nor breaking the chains of transmission will be enough to bring infection rates down, and that neither of these things are happening right now in any case."