{"id":114620,"date":"2021-02-22T10:56:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114620"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:56:37","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:56:37","slug":"covid-19-israel-starts-reopening-with-vaccine-passports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114620","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Israel starts reopening with  vaccine &#8220;passports&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-02\/21\/139756876_16139537090851n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Israel reopened large parts of its economy on Sunday after an almost two-month COVID-19 lockdown<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>JERUSALEM, Feb 22 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Israel reopened large parts of its economy on Sunday after an almost two-month COVID-19 lockdown, using &#8220;Green Pass&#8221; to lift some restrictions for vaccinated people while maintaining several bans on unvaccinated people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shops, malls and street markets were opened for all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While access to gyms, hotels, concerts, theaters, cinemas, and other leisure sites and cultural events was restricted only to people who have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine or have recovered from the illness, the Prime Minister&#8217;s Office and Health Ministry said in a joint statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vaccinated people could get a &#8220;Green Pass&#8221; status displayed on an app issued by the Health Ministry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most school classes have reopened and the rest are expected to be reopened by March, according to a government statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With a population of about nine million people, the &#8220;Green Pass&#8221; applies to about 3.2 million people who have received both shots or have recovered from COVID-19, according to a statement by Health Minister Yuli Edelstein on Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday that the country&#8217;s large-scale rollout continues at a pace of about 30,000 vaccine shots given every day in the group of people aged over 50.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the coming two weeks, we intend to vaccinate over 95 percent of those in this age group,&#8221; he said in a video statement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Israel has entered its third nationwide lockdown on December 27, 2020 while launching a large-scale COVID-19 vaccine rollout. It started coming out of the lockdown on Feb 7. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Israel reopened large parts of its economy on Sunday after an almost two-month COVID-19 lockdown JERUSALEM, Feb 22 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Israel reopened large parts of its economy on Sunday after an almost two-month COVID-19 lockdown, using &#8220;Green Pass&#8221; to lift some restrictions for vaccinated people while maintaining several bans on unvaccinated people. Shops, malls and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114622,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114620"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}