The new variety that worries the world: The
variant that was discovered and spread in African countries, was first identified today (Friday) in Israel.
This is a person who returned from Malawi in Africa and was diagnosed as positive.
In addition, there are suspicions of two more cases of returnees from abroad who are currently awaiting the results of their paving and have been sent for isolation.
South Africans on the difficulties in the country due to the spread of the corona virus // Photo: Reuters
In all three cases, these are vaccinated whose immunization details are currently being verified.
The Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, held a consultation yesterday with the Minister of Health, the Director General of the Ministry of Health, the Head of Public Health Services at the Ministry of Health and the Minister of Defense, regarding the new strain of corona virus discovered abroad - B.1.1529.
In a follow-up discussion chaired by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health, the following decisions were made:
The following countries were defined at this time as red: South Africa, Lesotho, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Namibia and Aswatini.
Foreigners from these countries will not be able to enter Israel.
All returnees from these countries, including those vaccinated with a third vaccine, will be referred for isolation in Corona hotels for 7 days, and will be released after performing 2 PCR tests that have a negative result.
Passengers who refuse to be checked will be charged for 14 days of isolation at the Corona Hotel.
The Prime Minister will conduct ongoing situation assessments, together with the Minister of Health and the professionals in his office, in order to closely monitor the outbreak of the new strain and prevent its spread in Israel.
According to the British "i" site, the variant has "an extremely large number of mutations" that may make it difficult for vaccines to work and has been identified in three countries, although so far only ten cases have been reported.
PM Naftali Bennett // Photo: Haim Tzach - GPO,
This is a variant that has been identified with 32 mutations (twice the mutations of the Delta) that have been identified in South Africa, Botswana and also Hong Kong (although it seems that this was because of a carrier that came from South Africa).
The British health care system is closely monitoring the variant, and in South Africa one wonders if it is responsible for the recent jump from 312 positive cases on Monday to 860 on Tuesday.
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