Health Minister Yuli Edelstein confessed that “it’s clear we will have to enter a tight restraining [policy] or a lockdown [and] commerce will suffer” on Sunday.The comment came during a government discussion on how the nation should respond to the leap in COVID-19 infection rates and early reports about a new mutation of the novel coronavirus in the UK.
“However, that is money,” he said, “which is not equal to education [in its value], which is why I prefer to keep schools open for as long as possible.”