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Gidi Kleiman
BBC News, Jerusalem
We’ve head a lot from France today about new restrictions on UK travellers, but the country is not alone in taking action.
Israel will designate the UK and Denmark as countries on its Covid-19 “red list” at midnight due to concern over the spread of the Omicron variant.
Israeli citizens and permanent residents are forbidden from travelling to “red” countries from Israel, unless they get permission from the government.
Travellers returning from a “red” country are be taken to a publicly-funded quarantine facility on arrival and must stay there until they receive a negative PCR test result. They may then complete their seven days of isolation at home.
France, Spain, Ireland, Finland, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates are expected to be added to the red list on Sunday. Most African nations are already on it.
Israel closed its borders to almost all foreign nationals last month in response to Omicron, just weeks after they were reopened to vaccinated travellers.
Earlier this week, Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz told reporters that Israel could not be “hermetically sealed”, but that it was possible to delay the spread of Omicron in the country.
