Believing that it has no more benefits to culminated, the country has reopened its borders, relaxed the conditions of isolation for positive cases and evolve its screening policy, while focusing on an amplification of vaccination. .
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With a month behind Europe, the “citadel” Israel sees over the Omicron and loose variant of Les. Since the end of December, the number of contaminations identified each day has increased by less than 2,000 to more than 17,000 cases. Faced with this wave that could contaminate between 2 million and 4 million Israeli (out of 9.3 million in total), according to the Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, the country relaxes a series of restrictions considered unnecessarily paralyzing. Sunday, January 9, he reopened his borders.
The country has no more advantage in culking, considers for several weeks the scientific council that assists the government. Ben-Gurion International Airport once again admits tourists from countries classified in December on a red list, including France and the United States. Vaccinated travelers who are not part of a risk group are only subject to an antigenic test and at least twenty-four hours of isolation.
This month “in advance” allowed the State to reconstitute its vaccine stocks, to obtain a recently approved Pfizer laboratory treatment for people at risk (Paxlovid), and to evaluate the damage. varying cause abroad. For the moment, it reassures itself by noting that the number of serious cases remains limited: 203, 60% of which are not up to date with their vaccines, according to the Kan State radio, and 52 under fan. For Nadav Davidovitch, Director of the Ben-Gurion University, and a member of the Scientific Council, however, could exceed, in a few weeks, the capacities of hospitals, which combine 3,000 beds in resuscitation.
Quarantine rules softened
Choosing his battles, the government put on what he knows and knows how to do: vaccinate. It tries, for the rest, to prevent a breakage of the test capacities and relaxes its quarantine rules, in order to avoid paralyzing the country. “The rule that must guide us is that the vaccine protects you from serious and quarantine disease. Whoever is totally vaccinated is protected against the need to isolate”: this is the heading fixed, from January 3rd. , by Naftali Bennett.
Since January 6, PCR tests are given priority to non-vaccinated persons, over 60 years and at risk categories. Leaving to create criticism on a “preferential” treatment granted to non-vaccinated. In case of contact with a contaminated person, the others are encouraged to use home antigenic tests – more and more expensive and less effective.
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