Israel to add US, Canada to travel ban over omicron variant

JERUSALEM — Israeli ministers connected Monday approved putting the United States and Canada connected its coronavirus question reddish database arsenic the omicron variant spreads astir the globe.

The uncommon determination to red-list the U.S. comes amid rising infections successful Israel. The U.S. volition articulation a increasing database of European countries and different destinations to which Israeli are barred from traveling, and from which returning travelers indispensable stay successful quarantine.

A parliamentary committee is expected to springiness the measurement last approval. Once authorized, the question prohibition volition instrumentality effect astatine midnight connected Wednesday.

Israel has seen a surge successful caller cases of the much infectious coronavirus variant successful caller weeks, and began closing its borders and restricting question successful precocious November.

Other countries that were approved to beryllium added to the question prohibition are Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Morocco, Portugal, Switzerland and Turkey.