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Coronavirus latest: Protests by Israeli ultra-orthodox force Netanyahu to cancel planned lockdown – Financial Times
Today’s top news: Melbourne faces restrictions until the end of September. Officials in the US warn against large gatherings over the Labor Day long weekend. The rate of new infections in South Korea falls to near a three-week low.
Mehul Srivastava in Tel Aviv
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu buckled under pressure from his ultra-orthodox coalition allies and cancelled a targeted lockdown of their segregated cities, even as Israel’s death toll from the coronavirus passed the grim milestone of a thousand deaths.
The lockdown of some two dozen cities, mostly ultra-orthodox and Arab majority, was designed to dislodge Israel’s ranking from the worst country in the world for new infections, on a per capita basis. The…
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