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Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Israel ended its outdoor mask mandate Sunday, now that about 80 percent of its adult population of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, reports said.&nbsp;“Being without a mask for the first time in a long time feels weird. But it’s a very good weird,” Amitai Hallgarten, 19, told Reuters.“If I need to be masked indoors to finish with this, I’ll do everything I can.”At the start of the pandemic last year, Israel required residents to wear face coverings while they were outside as long as they weren’t exercising. But now that close to 5 million people in Israel have received the two-dose vaccine, health officials are starting to ease restrictions, .&nbsp;“The rate of infection in Israel is very low thanks to the successful vaccine campaign in Israel, and therefore it is possible to ease [restrictions],” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said in a statement.&nbsp;In January, Israel was grappling with about 10,000 new infections a day but amid a surge of vaccinations, that number has dropped to about 200 daily and hospitalizations and deaths are nearly non-existent, .&nbsp;While the end of masking up outside is a positive step forward to getting back to normal, the country is still requiring anyone who enters the country, including citizens, to self-isolate.&nbsp;The country’s health ministry noted that there are seven cases of a new Indian variant and it may have on transmission.&nbsp;&nbsp;“We are leading the world right now when it comes to emerging from the coronavirus,” Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told reporters.&nbsp;“[But] we have still not finished with the coronavirus. It can return.”&nbsp;Share Selection

Thanks for contacting us. We've received your submission.Israel ended its outdoor mask mandate Sunday, now that about 80 percent of its adult population of Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, reports said.&nbsp;“Being without a mask for the first time in a long time feels weird. But it’s a very good weird,” Amitai Hallgarten, 19, told Reuters.“If I need to be masked indoors to finish with this, I’ll do everything I can.”At the start of the pandemic last year, Israel required residents to wear face coverings while they were outside as long as they weren’t exercising. But now that close to 5 million...

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