Israel to ban travel to US, Canada over omicron variant

[Sherman A1]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ban travel to the United States, Canada and eight other countries amid the rapid, global spread of the omicron variant.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office announced the decision following a Cabinet vote.

The rare move to red-list the U.S. comes amid rising coronavirus infections in Israel and marks a change to pandemic practices between the two nations with close diplomatic relations. The U.S. will join a growing list of European countries and other destinations to which Israelis are barred from traveling, and from which returning travelers must remain in quarantine.

https://krcgtv.com/news/nation-world/israel-to-ban-travel-to-us-canada-over-omicron-variant

[gab13by13]

1. Who picked the 10 countries? Politicians?

Why not the UK, it is full of Covid?

[Beastly Boy]

2. Israel's Health Ministry did

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/covid-19-in-israel-372-new-cases-81-in-serious-condition-689146

And the reason UK is not included in this most recent list is because it was one of the first countries to get on the list:

Also on Sunday, the Constitution Committee approved the government’s decision to add the United Arab Emirates, Ireland, Norway, Spain, Finland, France and Sweden to the list starting Monday.
The group of red countries already includes the UK, Denmark, South Africa and several dozen other African nations.