Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has announced that the requirement to show proof of coronavirus vaccination to enter various sites will soon end, as the wave of infections wanes, reports AFP.

Israel had been a early trailblazer of a national vaccine rollout and among the first countries to demand a vaccination certificate, which it called the green pass, to enter a range of facilities.

Bennett said that with a clear decline in both the number of serious Covid-19 cases and the number of confirmed infections, it was a “good time” to scrap the vaccine proof requirement.

“We will stop using the green pass,” Bennett said.