Israel lifted its outdoor mask mandate on Sunday as conditions improve amid the nation's mass COVID-19 vaccination push, Reuters reported. "We are leading the world right now when it comes to emerging from the coronavirus," Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Benjamin (Bibi) NetanyahuMORE told reporters, according to the news service. ADVERTISEMENTEven with the year-long enforced outdoor mask mandate scrapped, Israel's health ministry still requires masks to be worn indoors. Despite the advances, travel by foreigners to Israel is still limited and returning non-immune Israelis have to quarantine, it added. According to Reuters, Israel's health ministry said it had recently detected seven cases of a new Indian variant.

Source: The North Africa Journal April 18, 2021 16:52 UTC