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About 40% of the country has already been fully vaccinated against the coronavirus. population.
“We are beginning to live,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said, having a cake in a cafe in Jerusalem. A video of his visit was posted on the social network Facebook.
More than 3.7 million people have already been vaccinated with two recommended doses from Pfizer and BioNTech in Israel, which launched a vaccination campaign in December. of about 9 million. of the entire population.
Almost 5 million people have already been vaccinated with at least one dose of the vaccine.
Last month, the country launched its “green passport” program, which allows people who have been fully vaccinated or recovered from COVID-19 to visit gyms, swimming pools and other places, limiting the number of visitors.
Reuters / Scanpix Photo / Benjamin Netanyahu in a cafe in Jerusalem
However, the opening of restaurants this Sunday is highly anticipated as it marks a resumption of services related to the daily lives of many Israelis.
Restaurants can now receive visitors to the premises, filling them up to 75%, but without exceeding 100 customers and maintaining a distance of 2 m between tables.
Holders of a Green Passport can now have a drink at the bar, but cannot chat with a stranger sitting next to them yet, as the rules require that at least one chair be left between customers, unless those customers live together.
Everyone can eat and drink on the terraces, regardless of whether they have a “green passport”.
Many students who have not been to school for months will also begin to return to school. The hallways of the passes of hotels, sports facilities and places of worship will be open to people with a Green Passport, although the number of visitors will also be limited.
AFP / Photo by Scanpix / Israelis can now attend concerts and other cultural events with a “green passport”
Closing airports will allow Israelis trapped abroad to return home more quickly; on Sunday you can return a thousand. people.
“We will finish”
Netanyahu, who faces an uphill battle for re-election two weeks later, highlights the rapid vaccination campaign in Israel during the campaign.
Vaccines have been hard to come by in many countries, but the Netanyahu government is well supplied, mainly due to an agreement with Pfizer to share medical data on the effects of the vaccine.
The prime minister since 2009 has said he wants to vaccinate everyone in the country over the age of 16 by the end of this month, and expects the economy to be almost fully open before the Passover holiday, which begins on March 27.
“We still need several hundred thousand people, especially those over 50, and we will be done,” Netanyahu said at a cafe in Jerusalem.
Although Israel’s vaccination rate is among the highest in the world, many, including the United Nations, are calling on the country to ensure that Palestinians living in the occupied West Bank and the blockaded Gaza Strip are also vaccinated.
The Netanyahu government has announced plans to vaccinate 100,000. Palestinians with work permits in Israel.
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