Israel frees itself from the jugular in the streets and resumes face-to-face lessons – telam

Israel lifted the requirement to wear face masks in public places on Sunday and resumed face-to-face classes completely, in a further easing of coronavirus restrictions after a successful vaccination campaign and extended quarantine.

All primary and secondary schools in the country have reopened their doors today for face-to-face lessons, and health authorities have ended, after a year, the obligation to wear a mask in public places.

Masks will remain compulsory in closed spaces or in large crowds.

Israel it already has more than 60% of its population vaccinated and has recorded a 97% reduction in the contagion curve since last January, also thanks to a total quarantine that began in December and began to be gradually lifted in February.

The government further announced that The country will once again receive tourists, vaccinated against the coronavirus, from May.

Virus chief Nachman Ash told Israel Public Radio today that lifting the requirement to wear masks in streets and other public places and resuming face-to-face lessons was a “calculated risk”.

Since the start of the pandemic last year, Israel has accumulated more than 836,000 coronavirus cases and at least 6,331 deaths, according to the health ministry.

More than 53% of its 9.3 million inhabitants received the two doses of the Pfizer / BioNTech coronavirus vaccine and more than 60% the first.

Since Israel launched its vaccination campaign and was confined for a month, severe cases and deaths from the coronavirus have fallen sharply.

Today, the Department of Health reported only 82 cases of coronavirus in the past 24 hours, inform el diario The Jerusalem Post.

In recent days, the country had only registered around 200 cases per day.