Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz said Wednesday that “we closed the breach, no people will leave Ben Gurion Airport without conducting a [Covid-19] test.

The recent rise in coronavirus infections has led the government to tighten some restrictions after several weeks of almost no Covid-related measures.

“The morbidity of the last few days was caused by violating quarantine,” he continued. “We will set fines of thousands of shekels to anyone caught staying in a dangerous country.”