Israel will reopen its borders to unvaccinated people from March 1.
Israel will reopen its borders to unvaccinated people from March 1, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday, a first since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The decision “will take effect from March 1,” when all foreign visitors will be able to enter Israel, provided they complete a PCR test before departure and another upon arrival, according to a statement from Mr. Bennett. Israeli citizens will only have to take a PCR test upon arrival.
On Thursday, Mr. Bennett announced the end of the health pass, of which his country had been one of the pioneers, saying that the wave of contamination linked to the Omicron variant was now fading in Israel. The Jewish state was one of the first countries to launch a major vaccination campaign in December 2020, thanks to an agreement with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer.
Today, almost half the population has received three doses of the vaccine, which, according to health authorities, helped limit the number of hospitalizations at the height of the wave of the Omicron variant.
The Jewish state identified more than 10,000 new cases of Covid-19 on Sunday, a number well below the 85,000 daily cases of contamination at the end of January. In total, more than 3.5 million cases and 9,841 deaths have been recorded in Israel since the start of the pandemic.
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