Israel begins to open its economy after two months of quarantine: it has lifted many restrictions Business



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Most of the students returned to classrooms after nearly two months, and museums, libraries, and shopping malls were reopened. There are still some limitations on the number of visitors. The entire education system should return to normal work in early March.

Gyms, swimming pools, movie theaters and restaurants are open to people who have been vaccinated with two doses of COVID-19.

Israel unveiled its plan to allow vaccinated people to attend cultural events, fly abroad and visit restaurants and health clubs on Saturday through a “green badge” app, the implementation of which was accompanied by technical difficulties.

After Israel struck a deal with Pfizer to share data on vaccine doses, its vaccination campaign has been the fastest in the world for the past two months. Currently, almost half of the 9.3 million. The country’s population has already been vaccinated with the first dose of Pfizer and BioNTech. About 3 million. population has already received the second dose.

The country has received international criticism for the fact that its successful vaccination campaign largely excluded Palestinians in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. This underscores the Palestinians’ dependence on Israel in their efforts to combat the pandemic. Recently, Israel helped deliver the first 2,000. doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip.

However, the coronavirus is still spreading rapidly in Israel, so movement and assembly restrictions imposed in late December along with the quarantine remain in effect.

At least 743,000 people have been registered in Israel since the start of the pandemic. COVID-19 cases and at least 5,521 deaths from the disease. Three quarantines have paralyzed the economy and unemployment currently exceeds 20 percent.



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