Israeli health minister Yuri Edelstein announced Monday that from April 18, Israelis will no longer be required to wear face masks outdoors, but will still be required to wear them indoors and maintain a social distance.

"As a result of the successful vaccination campaign, the rate of new coronavirus infections (COI) across the country has fallen sharply," Eidstein said in a statement, AFP reported. "As a result, some of the restrictions have been eased, and Israelis will no longer need to wear masks outdoors."

"Masks are designed to protect us from novel coronavirus.""However, after the professionals decided it was no longer necessary to wear it in open Spaces, I decided it was OK to take it off," Edelstein said.

Meanwhile, Israel's Education Ministry announced that the country's primary and secondary schools and kindergartens will be reopened today.Schools should continue to encourage personal hygiene and keep classrooms ventilated;For extra-curricular activities in open Spaces, no more than 50 participants are allowed.false degree.

The COVID-19 situation in Israel has improved rapidly in recent months, thanks to the world's fastest vaccination campaign in the country.A total of 9.3 million people of Israel, according to Israeli ministry of health released the latest data on 15th night, there are over 5.33 million israelis with at least one dose of vaccine, new ultra 4.96 million people aged 16 (81%) of Israel completed two dose, the Israeli daily new cases and severe cases have dropped to its lowest level since a few months.To put that in perspective, Israel was seeing about 10,000 new cases a day in mid-January. Now it's only about 200 new cases a day.