ISRAEL: Health official says country in second coronavirus wave

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Health Ministry General Manager Moshe Bar Siman Tov and Prof. Siegal Sadetzki holds a press conference about the Coronavirus, in Tel Aviv, February 27, 2020. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90 *** Local Caption *** קורנה וירוס סין משרד הבריאות משה בר סימן טוב מנכ"ל משרד הבריאות פרופ' סיגל סדלצקי

Prof. Sigal Sadetzky, the head of health services at the Health Ministry, tells lawmakers at a Knesset panel discussion that Israel is seeing the start of a second wave of the coronavirus, Hebrew media reports.

“We had a long period of more than two weeks with a calm of less than 20 infections a day, and it started to climb and climb, and now we are seeing close to 200 new sick people a day,” she says.

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“What characterizes the wave we are seeing now is that it’s across the country, we don’t really know how to identify at-risk groups. We see it running all around and spreading over a very wide geographical area,” she adds.