The sky is opening: Dozens of countries are expected to leave the red list
At the end of the discussion of the committee authorized to discuss the issue, it appears that only 18 countries will remain on the list and will now be defined as "orange countries".
Yesterday, the Cabinet of Experts recommended canceling the list altogether, due to the assumption that in about two weeks, most of the illness and infection will already be within the borders of Israel.
Meirav Cohen
27/12/2021
Monday, 27 December 2021, 18:13 Updated: 18:44
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In the video: Demonstration of the workers of the world of tourism in Azrieli (Photo: Niv Aharonson, Editing: Aviad Ballali)
Dozens of countries will be removed from the list of red states, and only 18 countries will remain so - this is what the discussions of the committee for the classification of red states, which includes senior members of the Ministry of Health and the aviation industry, show tonight (Monday).
This is despite the spread of the coronavirus omicron strain.
The Cabinet of Experts yesterday recommended to Prime Minister Naftali Bennett that the travel ban to the red countries be completely lifted in the next two weeks, due to the assumption that in about two weeks most of the morbidity and infection will already be within Israel.
Passengers at Ben Gurion Airport, about a week ago (Photo: Official website, Flash 90)
The shortlist is likely to include the United Arab Emirates, the United States, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Mexico, South Africa, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Nigeria, Hungary, Spain, Portugal, Turkey and Canada - and an exceptions committee will be required to approve citizens' flights to them. .
The 51 countries that will be dropped from the list will be defined as orange, and they will be defined as destinations that have a severe warning against traveling to them.
At the same time, the inter-ministerial team examining the policy of foreigners entering Israel in the days of the Corona, decided to approve the entry of Israeli spouses into the country, provided that they do not come from red countries.
The move applies both to cases of a visit to Israel and to entry for another reason.
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The Ministry of Health announced today that 1,760 Israelis were diagnosed yesterday as positive for Corona and that half of them are Omicron carriers - out of about 94,000 tests, of which 1.87% came out positive.
The number of patients in critical condition remained stable at 87. The coefficient of infection first stabilized after 10 days and remained 1.41.
Omicron eruption present, midnight came into effect new restrictions, which include remote education beyond the seventh through twelfth grades of red and orange cities in classrooms with low immunization rate, and expanding green label and closure of joint food complexes malls.
Meanwhile, Sheba Medical Center, starting today The first study of its kind in the world, in which a fourth vaccine against Corona will be given to test the effectiveness of the fourth dose, will involve about 150 employees from Sheba, who already received the third dose more than four months ago, and their serology results below 700.
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