COVID-19 Travel: Likely No More Red Countries By Next Week – Health Official

By JPost
Posted on 01/05/22 | News Source: JPost

Israel will likely not have any countries classified as red as of next week, a health official told the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on Tuesday.

The committee also addressed the issue of special permission to travel to and from those countries on humanitarian grounds. It obtained the pledge of representatives of all relevant ministries that the criteria would soon be expanded to make immediate family members entitled to travel for life-cycle events.

“We estimate that next week the red-country list will be empty,” said Ilana Gens, head of the Health Ministry’s Public Health Services headquarters.

She said the model that the ministry is using to classify states takes into consideration the level of morbidity in the country compared with Israel, as well as the number of cases imported to Israel from abroad.

As the impact of cases from abroad decreases, “there is less epidemiological justification in restrictions,” Gens said.