Israel's plan to reissue coronavirus Green Passes, making them available only to those with booster shots, has been delayed, after the ministry's dedicated website failed to handle the traffic overload and crashed.
Under the new rules that came into force on Sunday, the Green Passes of all Israelis were to become void, with citizens being told to re-register on the system to maintain their access to public venues, including restaurants and gyms.
However, there was a catch: only those who had received their third, booster shot, or who'd had their second jab within the past six months, would have been eligible to renew, meaning between 1.5 and 1.7 million people would have lost their Green Pass privileges.
In early August, Israel became one of the first countries in the world to launch a booster campaign, and has already inoculated more than three million of its citizens with the third shot.
Many of those people rushed to the special website set up by the Health Ministry to get their new Green Passes, but they were met with a message saying the page was undergoing maintenance. The system worked for only a few hours early on Sunday morning before crashing due to the massive number of pass requests, local media reported.
After some time, the Health Ministry issued a statement saying the old Green Passes would remain valid "for the next few days." It's currently unclear when the system will be back online.
Even members of the Israeli government were affected, with Construction and Housing Minister Ze'ev Elkin blaming the Health Ministry for creating the "mess."
"I didn't download my new pass because the website doesn't work," Elkin complained to Israeli national public broadcaster Kan, adding that the switch should have been executed in a more "orderly manner."
The issue is certain to be on the agenda of the cabinet's coronavirus meeting, chaired by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, which is scheduled for later on Sunday.
A still-expanding group of U.S. colleges and universities say students must receive a COVID-19 vaccine before arriving on campus. The first institutions to announce the mandate were private, with Cornell University and Duke University leading the way. More and more universities, private and public, have followed suit. Currently, over 1,000 colleges and universities require the COVID-19 vaccine for residential students.See also: Quinnipiac University to fine, cut internet access to unvaccinated students
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Medical exemptions are guaranteed by law in all states, and religious exemptions, which may be relatively easy to receive, are permitted by most. To reinforce the mandate, however, colleges could push unvaccinated students to enroll online instead. The University of Virginia disenrolled 238 students for failing to report vaccination status or file for an exemption.
If permitted on campus, unvaccinated students may be required to continue asymptomatic testing and could be excluded from activities like studying abroad.
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