Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday told an online meeting of world leaders, including New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, that his main worry was the emergence of cases of people being reinfected with the coronavirus.

“Basically, unless we have a vaccine this thing can last a longer period of time than we think.

“And the question is, how we can support our health system, or prevent it from collapsing while opening our economy. This is the dilemma that we’re all familiar with,” Netanyahu said in the video conference.

“Specifically on this, there is no real answer that prevents the reinfection of populations, unless you get to herd immunity. And herd immunity appears at the moment to be very expensive in human lives,” he added.

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