Israel lifts outdoor mask mandate after vaccination drive
Israelis stepped out into the streets unmasked for the first time in a year on Sunday amid a further easing of COVID-19 safety restrictions, Euronews reported.
The government has relaxed the rule on mask-wearing outdoors in response to its successful mass vaccination drive, which has now seen 5.34 million people receive their first shot.
All in all, 61.7 per cent of Israel s 9.3 million citizens have now had a first dose of the vaccine, and 57.4 per cent are fully inoculated.
Newly-recorded COVID-19 cases and deaths in Israel continue to plummet, with just 14 new infections and no deaths recorded on April 17.
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