Individual tourists who have been vaccinated against it coronavirus will be able to enter Israel from next month, the government announced on Thursday, further easing restrictions on foreign arrivals that have been in effect since the pandemic began.
A joint plan of the Ministries of Tourism and Health and the Prime Minister Naftali Bennett will allow entry into the country from November 1st to foreigners who have been vaccinated within the last six months with their vaccines Pfizer/BioNTech, Modern, AstraZeneca, Johnson & Johnson, Sinovac and Sinopharm, reports Reuters.
According to this plan, those have become ill from Covid-19 may also enter Israel, provided that they have received one dose of vaccine approved by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The plan is subject to the approval of the Council of Ministers and “will be updated according to the developments and the discovery of new variants “, the joint announcement stated.
On Sunday, Bennett told government ministers that “as we manage the gradual exit from the wave of the Delta variant, we prepare for the “Omega” scenario“- this code name refers to a new variant.
Israel’s borders remain largely the same closed for foreigners from March 2020. In recent months the country has allowed the entry of small groups of vaccinated tourists and first-degree relatives of Israelis.
The Ministry of Tourism is pushing hard to allow entry to everyone vaccinated tourists as the Israeli economy is open with the exception of the heavily affected tourism industry.
The Ministry of Health recommended caution, given the possibility of new variants of the coronavirus.
In 2019 the country set a record 4.55 million tourist visitors, contributing 23 billion shekels ($ 7.2 billion) to the country’s economy.
With daily infections almost eliminated in June, Israel was ready to open to all foreign tourists at the height of the summer season, but the Delta variant led to an increase in infections. postponing these plans.
Yesterday Wednesday, 1.021 individuals were diagnosed with the virus. And while there are more than 15,000 active cases, only 331 considered in serious condition.
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