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Bennett: We are treating the situation like a new coronavirus outbreak

“In order to maintain our routine in Israel, we have to closely monitor entrances,” Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said.

| By ROSSELLA TERCATIN | Jerusalem Post – JUNE 22, 2021 |

The government is treating the increase in coronavirus cases as a new outbreak and taking measures to counter the disease, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said Tuesday.
He made his remarks after visiting Ben-Gurion Airport with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz (Meretz) and Transportation Minister Merav Michaeli (Labor).

Most of the vaccines Israel currently has will expire by the end of July, and to get children fully vaccinated, they need to receive the first shot not later than the beginning of next month, Bennett told reporters.
“The Delta variant, sometimes called the Indian variant, is currently spreading rapidly around the world with a much higher infection rate than we were familiar with,” he said.

“Unfortunately, we are seeing the beginning of a virus spread within the State of Israel, and we do not always know how to locate its source.”

Several coronavirus outbreaks in schools throughout the country were mostly caused by breaches of quarantine by people returning from abroad, Horowitz has said. The relevant ministers have vowed to fix the situation by expanding testing capabilities, stepping up enforcement and closing problematic loopholes in regulations. The coronavirus cabinet intends to resume its activities.

“I want to ask everyone, anyone who is not compelled to go abroad, that they not go abroad,” Bennett said, adding that in the coming days, policies regarding entrance and exit from the country might change.

People should start wearing masks again indoors, and that might become mandatory depending on how the situation develops, he said. People will be required to wear masks at Ben-Gurion Airport.