Israel will reopen its borders to people not vaccinated against COVID 19 as of March 1Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday.
This decision “will come into force from March 1”, the date on which all foreign visitors will be able to enter Israel, on the condition that they carry out a PCR test before departure and another upon arrival, according to a statement from the office. of Bennett.
Israeli citizens will only need to take a PCR test upon arrival.
On Thursday, Bennett announced the end of the sanitary pass, of which his country is one of the pioneers, stating that the wave of omicron-related contamination is now stopping in Israel.
The Hebrew State was one of the first countries to launch the vaccination campaign in December 2020, after an agreement with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Currently, about half of the population has received three doses of the vaccine, which helped, according to health authorities, to limit the number of hospitalizations at the height of the wave of the omicron variant.
Israel recorded more than 10,000 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, a figure far lower than the 85,000 daily cases of contamination at the end of January.
In total, more than 3.5 million cases and 9,841 deaths have been recorded in Israel since the start of the pandemic. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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