Israel: toll of COVID infections and new health restrictions | They ask for a negative vaccination certificate or PCR for restaurants, museums and events

the israeli government activated this wednesday new health restrictions after reaching this Tuesday the highest number of coronavirus infections in seven months with 8,700 new cases. Israel is one of the countries that has made the most progress in the vaccination campaign and is applying third doses to protect the population from the Delta variant, which has caused an increase in cases.

Covid certificate

The Israeli authorities have reinstated the Obligation to present the vaccination certificate or negative PCR test enter restaurants, hotels, museums and libraries, and attend cultural and sporting events.

In early March, the government of then Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu imposed the use of Green Pass access to public spaces, but in June – thanks to the vaccination campaign that reached 70 percent of the country’s population – health measures were briefly lifted.

However, the emergence of the Delta variant, especially in adults who refuse to be vaccinated, has forced the administration of Naftalí Bennett to restore, among other things, the use of the jugular in confined spaces.

Third dose of vaccine

Likewise, the Israeli authorities they started injecting a third dose Pfizer vaccine in people 50 years of age or older, despite the call from the World Health Organization (WHO) not to do so so that poor countries have more vaccines.

Bennett, For its part, answered that the administration of these recalls in Israel, a country of 9 million inhabitants, would not affect world reserves and rather would test the effectiveness of the third application.

New containment?

The Prime Minister also warned that a new containment could be imposed in September, the month in which the most important holidays for the Jewish community – such as the New Year and the Day of Atonement – will be celebrated, if the situation does not improve.

In total, more than 950,000 people have fallen ill with covid-19 in Israel, of which 6,700 have died.

More than 5.4 million people have already received two doses of the vaccine and about 1.1 million the third.