Israel’s director of public health has resigned after the country experienced a sharp rise in cases.
Siegal Sadetzki, an epidemiologist, criticised the government’s response and said it had lifted lockdown restrictions too quickly.
“The achievements in dealing with the first wave [of infections] were cancelled out by the broad and swift opening of the economy,” she wrote in a statement.
Israel imposed a national lockdown in April, and by the following month it had reduced the number of new cases to about 20 a day.
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But it reopened schools and businesses shortly after and the rate of infection rose sharply. The daily number of new cases hit 1,000 last week.
On Monday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the country needed to take “limited actions” to avoid another full lockdown.
