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    Former Health Min. director: Schools could be source of mass COVID outbreak

    Former director-general of the Health Ministry, Moshe Bar Siman Tov, told Galei Tzahal this morning that resumption of in-class learning for students still at home should be approached with the greatest of caution, in order to prevent mass outbreaks of coronavirus.

    "The greatest potential for a new outbreak is in the schools," he said. "We have huge logistical challenges to contend with there, much greater than with vaccine distribution."