Prime Minister of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that all tourists will be in a two-week quarantine on the background of the spread of the coronavirus, reports RIA Novosti.

Earlier, the Israeli Ministry of Health had called on citizens to not travel to Italy and weight out the need to visit foreign countries due to the coronavirus.

These measures also apply for people arriving from Japan and South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong and Macao, France, Germany, Spain, Austria and Switzerland.