Posted on 01/02/22
| News Source: Arutz-7
Israeli leaders on Sunday debated the direction government policy should take regarding the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic, following warnings by Health Ministry officials that the country’s testing labs could soon be overwhelmed in the face of the spreading Omicron variant.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said during the cabinet meeting Sunday that the government will soon have to ration COVID tests, noting that demand would likely exceed testing capacity.
“We will need to limit who can get tests, because there won’t be sufficient capacity in the testing system – no country will have enough.”
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) concurred, adding that the next wave of the pandemic would likely be ‘extreme’ – though shorter than previous waves, Channel 12 reported.
“This will be an extreme wave, but short.”
“We’re doing the largest number of tests in the world relative [to population size], so there are long lines.”
“We will cut testing and impose criteria limiting who needs to get tested.”