Posted on 08/12/21
| News Source: i24
Less than one month before Rosh Hashanah, a senior Ukrainian Foreign Ministry official recently announced that the state would allow people to come to Uman due to “good sanitary conditions regarding the coronavirus in the city at this time.”
However, Israel considers Ukraine an orange country, and travelers staying there must self-quarantine for seven days following arrival at Ben Gurion International Airport.
A senior Ukrainian health ministry official claimed that most Uman residents – especially those working in the hotel and restaurant industry – had been vaccinated against the coronavirus.
It has also been said that the Ukrainian Health Ministry should take action to protect pilgrims Reb Nachman’s kever in Breslov from Covid-19.
Volunteers from both Ukraine and Israel will work to quickly test pilgrims as they try to enter the country, with some 50,000 rapid COVID-19 testing kits allocated for the job, according to the Jewish News Syndicate (JNS).
Last year, several hundred Jews eager to spend Rosh Hashana in Uman were stranded at the border, barred from entering the country because of measures to combat the coronavirus.
