The Ministry of Health tonight (Wednesday) updated the procedure for Omicron recoverers, starting at midnight - each Corona patient verified for the South African variant will stay in isolation for 14 days from the date of the first test - rather than 10 days as is the case with other strains.
The Ministry of Health clarified that a patient will only receive a recovery certificate if he has not had corona symptoms in the last three days of the period, explaining: "This update is applied due to the suspicion that Omicron verified may be contagious for a longer period than observed in other variants."
Dr. Nadav Sorek explains the Omicron variant
It was further determined that a person defined as having a high blue suspicion in the omicron variant would be defined as recovering with the approval of the district physician, if no paving results were obtained by the end of a 10-day recovery period.
To date, 21 verified vertebrae have been identified in Israel, 16 of which have returned from South Africa, England, France and the United Arab Emirates, and five have been verified after contact with returnees from South Africa and the United States. , And vaccinated in a second dose that was half a year after the vaccination date) and 13 protected.
There is also a high suspicion of another 21 cases of variant exposure for which the flooring results have not yet been obtained.
Of these, 14 are unprotected and seven of them are protected.
Also, out of those 21 suspected cases, 5 returned from abroad or came in contact with returnees from abroad and 16 have not been abroad recently. In addition, there are 17 other cases, defined as "low suspicion" (samples defined as borderline charges) and sent For re-examination.
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