Masked travelers arrive at Ben Gurion Airport
Masked travelers arrive at Ben Gurion Airport
The Health Ministry said in a statement that the country’s coronavirus cabinet has a series of legal measures, including including 50 African countries on the travel red list, banning the entry of foreigners and requiring quarantine for all. Israelis arriving from abroad.
It also approved the use of the Shin Bet internal security agency’s questionable generation of phone surveillance to perform tactile tracking of Americans who have been shown to bring the new Omicron variant of the coronavirus to Israel.
Israeli human rights groups have denounced the use of phone surveillance technology as a violation of the right to privacy, and the Supreme Court ruled earlier this year that its use be restricted.
The Association for Civil Rights in Israel said Sunday that “the resumption of the program through emergency regulation is a blatant disregard for the rule of law,” noting the court’s ruling that “monitoring has not been shown to be effective in preventing the spread” of the virus.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Sunday that strengthening Israel’s borders would keep the country open from the inside.
“The country’s border restrictions are not a simple step, but they are a transitory step,” he said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting.
Dr. Ran Balicer, head of the government’s advisory committee on Covid-19, told Israel’s Kan public radio that the new measures are to deal with the “fog of war” surrounding the new variant, saying it is “better to act early and strictly. “to save you from spreading.
On Saturday, Israel said it had detected the new strain in a traveler returning from Malawi and was investigating seven other suspected cases. Of the other seven people, three others were vaccinated and all were placed in isolation.
Scientists say the new variant of the coronavirus, first detected in South Africa, is concerning because of its increased number of mutations and immediate spread.
Israel, a country of 9. 3 million people, has reported at least 8,184 coronavirus deaths since the start of the pandemic.
Most of the population (more than 6. 3 million people) have received at least one dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, and more than four million Israelis have received a booster shot.
The country has more than 7,000 active cases, 120 in serious condition hospitalized, according to statistics from the Ministry of Health.
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