Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cabinet voted to extend the country’s national coronavirus lockdown until at least Friday morning as Israel continues to face high infection rates.

Netanyahu’s office announced the extension of the lockdown that has shut down most schools and nonessential businesses as it entered its fourth week.

Officials also decided to keep the nation’s only major airport closed until Sunday and to reinstate a mandatory quarantine for those allowed inside government quarantine hotels starting Tuesday.

The extension comes as Israel had forecasted that coronavirus cases and deaths would decrease by mid-January, a prediction that did not end up coming true, according to Reuters. Israeli officials point to more contagious foreign strains and noncompliance within the country for the continuing high COVID-19 statistics.