Coronavirus commissioner Prof. Salman Zarka said this morning in an interview with Reshet Bet that "it is too early to say that the fifth wave is behind us, we are seeing a decline but the numbers are still high."
According to him, precisely when the wave is on the decline we need to be more careful, It will take some more time before we can say that there was a fifth wave, it is too early to start removing masks." When asked if the fifth wave would be the last, Zarka replied:" There is already the BA2 in Israel. It slowed the rate of decline in morbidity and created a kind of wave within a wave. "The virus taught us that it produces variants quickly, so that even at the end of the fifth wave we will not be able to return to the life we used to have."