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Senior health official says scrapping of Green Pass a risk
Health Ministry Director General Hezi Levi tells Ynet there is still a risk on new COVID variants entering Israel and some measures, such as indoor mask mandate, will remain in place despite majority of remaining curbs are to be lifted on June 1
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Published: 05.27.21 , 13:05
A senior health official said Thursday that Israel s plan to scrap its Green Pass program from next week is a risk , which he hopes will not blow up in our faces .
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced on Sunday that Israel will not extend most domestic COVID-19 restrictions past June 1 as infection rate remain low throughout the country, including the need to present vaccination certificate at entrances to some public facilities.
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Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla does not update his Twitter account very often, but he sent out a celebratory tweet last week after inking a deal with Israel. “Pfizer and governments around the world are working on longer-term pandemic preparedness. Today we signed our first 2022 government agreement with Israel to supply millions of doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine with the option to purchase millions of additional doses,” he tweeted.
Reactions were quick to come. Many of them focused on one issue – the Palestinians’ vaccine situation in comparison to that of Israel. “‘Israel’ wants to ensure that all settlers are vaccinated while Palestinians have to wait;” “The Israeli occupation must provide the vaccine to the Palestinians in accordance with international law;” “Although ‘Israel’ has been praised for its swift vaccine rollout, it has not provided Palestinians in
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