Government Disturbed by Drop in CoronaVirus Testing

This morning Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch called on the public, encouraging people to go get themselves tested for Corona. Kisch said that in recent days there has been a decrease in requests for tests.
1. it is a holiday. Nobody wants to bother with that right now
2. It is such a rigmarole to get tested. You have to first convince your doctor that you have a reason to be tested, maybe even lie about the reasons, get a referral for a test, then make an appointment for the one testing center in town that might or might not have a slot open during the time span of your referral (and if not you will have to go back to the doctor to get a new referral for the next day), and then go get tested at the kupa testing location. Or if your town/kupa has a walk in testing center, you get to stand in line with a bunch of other people who might have Corona and wait to get tested.
Maybe make the process simpler. Maybe open up testing to the general public, without a doctor's referral. Maybe open more testing centers. It is such a pain the neck, I don't doubt that people are just deciding it is too much of a deal to bother with.
3. Clearly the public has lost faith. Many are not bothering to test because why bother? If they feel ok, even better. Why test? And if they don't feel ok, maybe they stay inside and away from people, but you do not need to be tested for that - why risk the fine if you want to go out, and the trouble it brings along with it, and stigma and probably half a dozen other reasons. By now a sizeable portion of Israeli society has no interest in cooperating with what the Israeli government wants.
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