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The number of verified variants of Omicron in Israel has risen to 11, the Ministry of Health announced. All four new cases are patients who have been vaccinated three times, three of them with Pfizer vaccines and one with modern vaccines. Two of them returned from France, one from the United States and one from South Africa. In total, of the 11 verified for the Omicron variant in Israel, six of them are from South Africa, two from France, one from Malawi, one from England and one from the United States. Six of them were vaccinated three times, four were not vaccinated at all and one was...

The Ministry of Health announced on Sunday evening that 15 more people have been diagnosed as verified with the Omicron strain in Israel. To date, 67 verified persons have been identified in Israel: 44 who returned from South Africa, the United Kingdom, France, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Italy, Namibia and Turkey. Infected. The Ministry of Health also stated that out of those 67 verified, 13 are defined as unprotected (unvaccinated, recovering six months after recovery and vaccinated in a second dose six months after the date of vaccination) and 54 are...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz announced today (Tuesday) that starting Friday, it will be mandatory to display a green pass at the entrance to closed shopping centers, including malls. According to the guidelines, which will take effect after the approval of the Knesset and the Knesset's Constitution Committee, any person who presents a green card that will be digitally approved will receive a bracelet in a solid color, and it will allow free movement throughout the compound. Exemption from displaying a green label in closed centers will only be given to...

The discussion that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened on Sunday evening with senior Ministry of Health officials and some ministers ended without decisions. Ministers present at the hearing said there was no point in imposing restrictions on the current state of the epidemic, and especially not on gathering restrictions - which the ministers said would "put the economy in a spin". The Prime Minister's Office said that further consultations will be held later today in order to formulate the continuation of the action plan for the treatment of Omicron, which will be submitted for...

Pfizer has announced that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved for emergency use the drug it developed for Corona. Upon receipt of the approval, the new drug will be available to tens of millions of Americans, vaccinated and unvaccinated, if infected with the virus. The FDA approved the administration of the drug subject to obtaining a doctor's prescription for diagnosed patients, as long as no more than five days had elapsed from the onset of the first symptoms. According to Pfizer, when the pill was given within three days of the onset of symptoms, the risk of...

The team of experts in the treatment of epidemics in the Ministry of Health has recommended a fourth vaccine against Corona for adults over the age of 60 and for medical staff. The recommendation is subject to the approval of the Director-General of the Ministry of Health and at this stage, it appears that the fourth vaccine will be possible, but probably not necessarily recommended. The Corona Virus Information Center said: "Epidemic treatment team members recommend giving a fourth dose to people aged 60 and over and immunocompromised, provided four months have passed from the third dose;...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said this morning in an interview on the "This Morning" program on Kan B that "we are just before the contagion storm - on a scale we have not seen in Israel." Bennett added that according to the isolation policy that is expected to be adopted by the government, vaccinated people will not be required for isolation - even if they are exposed to a verified patient. The Prime Minister stressed that the data on the hospitalization of children in the world due to the spread of the omicron are on the rise and called on parents to vaccinate their children. The...

Senior Health Ministry officials convened a press conference to discuss how to deal with the Omicron strain. The event was attended by the Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, the director-general of the ministry, Prof. Nachman Ash, the project manager, Prof. Salman Zarka, and the head of the public health services, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price. During the press conference, senior ministry officials noted that it is mandatory to wear a mask in open spaces, where there are more than 50 people. Prof. Ash signed the order requiring the mask to be worn outside, and the directive, it turns out, went...

4,916 Israelis received a message on Thursday that they are positive about Corona. This is the highest daily verified number since September 27th. However, Channel 12 reported that the Ministry of Health is considering abolishing the isolation of returnees abroad. A total of 157,600 tests were deciphered and the positive rate was 3.15%. This is the highest positive percentage since October 1st. At the same time, the infection rate continues to rise and this morning stands at 1.71 - indicating a very widespread spread of the plague. 169 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals around...

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened a press conference on Sunday evening following the widespread of the Omicron strain across the country - and announced that the Ministry of Health has approved a fourth vaccine for all those aged 60 and up. "The wave of omicrons is here, and I want to give the citizens of Israel as complete a picture as possible," Bennett said at the beginning of the statement, which, for the first time since the increase in morbidity, was conditional on a rapid corona examination. "It is different from previous varieties and behaves differently, and this requires us...