Israel tightened the entry rules in the CoV crisis. Vaccinated persons also have to show a CoV test on arrival, which must not be older than 72 hours, as the Ministry of Health announced on the night of today.
Another test must be taken after entry. If this is also negative, the vaccinated do not have to go into quarantine. This regulation should apply from the beginning of the coming week.
Air traffic to Israel is currently almost completely suspended. The government has largely closed the country’s major air traffic hub, Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, to prevent further coronavirus variants from being brought in.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sees Israel in a race between vaccination success and infection dynamics. In the country of nine million people, around 3.6 million people have received a primary vaccination so far, of which around 2.2 million have also received the second dose. This coincides with the number of new infections, which recently remained at a very high level despite several weeks of lockdown.
Experts: Successful vaccination campaign
The deputy health minister Joav Kisch said, however, after a report by the channel Kan, that for the first time in a month the number of seriously ill had fallen below the 1,000 mark. Experts rated this as a success of the vaccination campaign. Because of the many seriously ill patients, the health system was recently close to its limits.
The government began the gradual exit from lockdown on Sunday. Yesterday they agreed on a staggered opening of educational institutions. In a first phase starting tomorrow, kindergartens and first to fourth school classes are to reopen in places with low infection rates.
In places with a higher number of infections, there should be open-air lessons with a maximum of ten people including the teacher. In Israel, temperatures are currently over 20 degrees Celsius during the day.
