{"id":227883,"date":"2021-02-19T08:29:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-19T08:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=227883"},"modified":"2021-02-21T07:30:08","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T07:30:08","slug":"__trashed-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=227883","title":{"rendered":"Israel announces Covid-19 lockdown easing for \u2018vaccine passport\u2019 holders"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>RT \u2013 Feb 16, 2021<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Israel is set to relax its Covid-19 lockdown and unveil a new \u2018vaccine passport\u2019 allowing those who received the jab to access some public spaces, as PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the shots could soon render restrictions unnecessary.<\/p>\n<p>The country\u2019s Covid-19 cabinet approved an easing of the shutdown measures after a meeting on Monday night, Netanyahu\u2019s office said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.il\/en\/departments\/news\/spoke_joint_statement150221\">statement<\/a>, putting Israel on track to enter the <em>\u201csecond phase\u201d<\/em> of the Health Ministry\u2019s exit plan this Sunday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened the Corona Cabinet to continue discussing the plan for exiting from the lockdown and the Green Badge outline.<\/p>\n<p>The Cabinet approved in principle the second and third phases of the Health Ministry exit plan.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/b3QLtlfdSM\">https:\/\/t.co\/b3QLtlfdSM<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IsraeliPM\/status\/1361403913208012812?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With some 43 percent of Israeli citizens inoculated with at least one shot of the jab developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, the cabinet moved to permit malls, open-air markets, museums and libraries to reopen next weekend, gradually scaling back controversial restrictions brought in late December.<\/p>\n<p>Also starting on Sunday, Israelis with a <em>\u201cGreen Pass\u201d<\/em> \u2013 handed out to those who\u2019ve received two doses of the vaccine or who are presumed immune after recovering from an infection \u2013 will be allowed to enter certain public spaces, such as gyms and hotels and sporting events. The pass can be displayed through a phone app.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Israel\u2019s Channel 12 News on Monday, Netanyahu spoke optimistically about the country\u2019s trajectory amid the pandemic, saying that 570,000 citizens over the age of 50 could make the current lockdown Israel\u2019s last if they were to receive the vaccine.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe need the utmost national effort\u2026to vaccinate these 570,000 people,\u201d<\/em> the prime minister said, adding <em>\u201cWhen they\u2019re vaccinated, there\u2019ll be no more need for lockdowns.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>If those 570,000 people over 50 get vaccinated, it\u2019s not only the last lockdown, we\u2019ll be done with Covid, period\u2026 We\u2019re leading the world on vaccines; we\u2019ll be the first to emerge from the coronavirus.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu, who has faced months of heated protests over the lockdown measures, also hailed the cabinet\u2019s decision to begin reopening as <em>\u201cwonderful news,\u201d<\/em> while taking credit for the Green Pass project.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe cabinet approved my green passport [framework],\u201d<\/em> he said. <em>\u201cIn two stages\u2026 people with green passports will be able to go to the movies, to soccer and basketball matches \u2013 and later to restaurants and on foreign flights \u2013 and those who don\u2019t vaccinate won\u2019t be able to.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The next phase of reopening is set for March 7, according to Netanyahu\u2019s statement, when small restaurants and cafes will be allowed to resume operations, as well as limited public gatherings. Those with Green Passes will then be permitted to dine out as normal and resume <em>\u201cfull activity\u201d<\/em> at hotels, event halls and other public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>To date, Israel has tallied more than 730,000 coronavirus infections and some 5,400 deaths, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University. It has recently seen a fall in its weekly average for new cases, dropping from over 6,300 last week to around 4,600 as of Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/515659-israel-lockdown-vaccine-passport\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel\u2019s vaccine passport scheme is likely to be a forerunner of similar schemes globally. Opening the way for wider mass inoculation programs with Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":227885,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-coronavirus","category-Israel_Anti-Semitism_Zionism_and_US-UK_allies"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=227883"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227884,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227883\/revisions\/227884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/227885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=227883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=227883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=227883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}