With only a record number of those diagnosed with the omicron strain, the Ministry of Health will hold a hearing tomorrow (Wednesday) at the end of which more countries are expected to be declared red.
It is currently unclear which countries will join the list, and in recent days there have been reports with names of different countries, which has caused heavy damage to the tourism and aviation industry and many cancellations of Israelis planning to fly and travel abroad.
Dr. Elrai-Price and Prof. Nachman Ash will decide which countries will be defined as red, Photo: Gideon Markovich
A senior official at one of the tourism companies told "Israel Today": "There are a lot of cancellations due to various and irresponsible reports that are published and run since the beginning of the week. People could fly and return at this time without isolation but canceled because of fear. .
Meanwhile, after we applied to the Ministry of Health for the full criteria following which decide which countries will become red, the Ministry refused to disclose this.
But what they did agree to say is that countries with an increase in morbidity with more than 10% of patients diagnosed with the omicron strain are more likely to turn red.
However, the island state of the Seychelles is defined as red even though it does not meet the criteria specified by the Ministry of Health.
Seychelles.
Defined as red even though it does not meet the criteria of the Ministry of Health, Photo: Ami Shumen
To deal with the cancellations and encourage vaccination, during the day, Israir announced an interesting benefit for new vaccinators, flight tickets to Bahrain for $ 9 for round-trip flights.
The company will give a thousand tickets at this price for flights that will take off between the end of January and the end of March 2022, the flights can be booked from tomorrow at 08:00.
At the same time, several different bodies, such as the Association of Travel Agents and the Open Air Headquarters, plan to appeal to the High Court in the coming days.
Israir offers an interesting benefit to vaccinators, Photo: Photo: Coco
At the same time, the UK announced that they were removing all countries from its list of red countries because "the Omicron variant is already in the country", the British media reported.
It was further reported that one of the reasons for the decision is the minimization of the damage to the aviation industry in the country.
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