Take off your mask and watch a soccer game… Israel and the UK are experimenting with returning to daily life

Amid quarantine emergencies around the world due to concerns about the ‘4th spread of Corona 19’, Israel and the UK, the leaders of vaccinations, have started a full-fledged return to daily experiment. Unlike Europe, where the number of confirmed cases is greatly increasing, the trend of decline continues, showing the opposite direction.

Israel plans to check whether it is safe by first removing masks from military units. Earlier, the Israeli Army (IDF) declared last month that it was the first in the world to reach’collective immunity’. It is explained that 85% of the people who have completed vaccination or recovered after COVID-19 infection.

According to the Times of Israel and others on the 5th (local time), the Israeli Ministry of Health and military authorities will begin experimenting with some military units outdoors without wearing a mask. The test subjects were units with more than 90% of the total history of soldiers having a week after completing the second dose of the Corona 19 vaccine or recovering after infection. However, removing the mask is only applied outdoors, and you should wear a mask during all indoor training and activities.

Israel plans to run the experiment for three months. Military authorities will check the corona 19 infection situation of the unit to be tested on a weekly basis. Based on this, it is decided whether to extend or stop the experiment.

According to Israeli military authorities, the number of corona19 infections in the military has declined sharply as the vaccination rate has risen. As a result, meetings and training became possible. In Israel, which has a conscription system like Korea, both men and women are obligated to serve.

The Times of Israel assessed the military experiment as the first step toward lifting the duty of ordinary citizens to wear masks.

Currently, the vaccination rate in Israel is 60.7% of the population. There were 363 confirmed cases on the 3rd, based on world-meter standards. Israel has phased out the blockade since last February, when about 45% of the population was vaccinated, almost recovering their daily life before Corona 19. Until the vaccination began in earnest, up to 10,000 confirmed cases per day.

According to the BBC and the Independent on the 5th, the UK will open some FA Cup matches and club events held in April to May to the public. At this time, various experiments are also conducted to find out how to safely hold a large-scale event. It is to measure the effect by mobilizing various quarantine methods, such as ventilation and distance.

It is also planning to use the’vaccine passport’ as a pilot for admission to the stadium. Here, whether or not vaccination has been completed, the results of recent tests, and the history of infection and recovery are described.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is scheduled to announce a detailed “immune experiment” plan, including these details, the foreign press reported.

The current vaccination rate in the UK, the first in the world to be vaccinated against Corona 19 on December 8 last year, is 46.3%. The 3,423 confirmed cases were counted. In January, the number of confirmed cases soared to 70,000 a day, but the number of confirmed cases and deaths rapidly decreased as vaccination accelerated.

Reporter Lim Sun-young [email protected]