Israel prohibits all foreigners from entering the country because countries around the world have strengthened control of the new Omicron coronavirus strain, and people are worried that this coronavirus may reduce the effectiveness of the vaccine.
The Israeli Coronavirus Cabinet has approved a series of measures, including banning the entry of foreigners, placing travel to 50 African countries on the red list, and compulsory isolation of all Israelis arriving from abroad, which is the world’s blocking variant of Omicron The most far-reaching effort. .
In the past few days, many countries including Brazil, Canada, the European Union, Iran and the United States have imposed restrictions on various countries in southern Africa in response to warnings about the spread of new variants. Some scientists worry Omicron will be more likely to infect or re-infect people who are immune to early mutations.
Last weekend, New Zealand announced restrictions on travel from nine countries in southern Africa, and Japan expanded border controls to include more countries in the region.
Thailand, which relies on tourism, has only recently begun to relax its strict border restrictions on leisure tourists from certain countries, announcing a ban on tourists from eight African countries. Similar restrictions are in effect in Singapore’s commercial hub, which prohibits entry and transit by anyone who has recently travelled to seven southern African countries. Sri Lanka, like the Maldives, prohibits passengers from six African countries from disembarking.
Austria announced on Sunday that it had found the first suspected case of Omicron, and French Health Minister Olivier Véran said that it may only take a few hours for the variant to be discovered in France. Cases have been detected in Germany, Italy and Belgium.