After leading the pilot for the removal of masks in open areas, the IDF wants to conduct a pilot for the removal of the masks in 10 units in which all soldiers are vaccinated or recover. • Ministry of Health: "They are exposed to mutations"
IDF soldiers. Will they drop first?
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Oren Ben Hakon
In recent days, the IDF has approached the Ministry of Health and proposed a pilot, in which servants will be able to stay in closed spaces without masks at all, with 100 percent of those present in the room vaccinated, Israel Today has learned.
According to the military proposal, the pilot will take place in ten units where the rate of vaccination is high, and the removal of the masks will only take place when all those present in the closed space are vaccinated against the corona virus or recover from the disease.
The IDF is awaiting approval from the Ministry of Health for the pilot.
It will be recalled that the army also conducted the first pilot in which training units and combat units in the IDF were exempted from wearing masks in open areas. The pilot, which began about a month ago, also took place at the request of the IDF and after approval by the Ministry of Health.
The pilot was originally planned to last three months, and the relief was conditional on at least 90 percent of the soldiers participating in the operation being vaccinated against or recovering from Corona.
In practice, as early as the middle of last month, the obligation to wear an open-air mask in the entire country was abolished.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, for the first time since the outbreak of the epidemic, the army reported that there was no coronary heart disease among IDF servicemen.
In recent months, there has been an extensive and impressive vaccination campaign in the IDF, in which we vaccinated more than 80 percent of the servicemen. This made the army the first organization in the world with herd vaccination. The numbers of vaccinated are particularly high in combat and combat units in the army, and lower in the rear. Even with the fact that about 60 percent of the new conscripts are not vaccinated even though they can be vaccinated with citizenship.
The army takes several weeks to vaccinate them, as it is not possible to vaccinate the conscripts on the day of their enlistment due to additional vaccinations given on that day.
The Ministry of Health responded: "The State of Israel is still exposed to infection even among vaccinated and recovering coronaviruses that have undergone mutations, and against which vaccine activity may be less effective. The Ministry of Health has yet to remove masks in closed spaces, so it is too early to approve the pilot."