Two Israeli doctors have diagnosed a new strain of the corona virus, Omicron. A spokesman for Shebaa Medical Center near Tel Aviv confirmed this on Tuesday.
According to the Reuters news agency, one of the doctors infected with the new corona virus had returned from a conference held in London last week.Sheba Hospital said the two doctors had administered three doses of the Pfizer / biotic vaccine, but so far they have shown mild symptoms of the epidemic Corona.
A hospital spokesman said the doctor, who had just returned from the UK, was believed to have infected his colleague.
In addition, two more people have been identified in Israel who have been found to be infected with the new E. macron virus.
Health officials have confirmed that one of them was a Malawian tourist who had been vaccinated with AstraZeneca.Given the current situation, Israel has closed its borders to foreigners from all countries for 14 days since Saturday in an effort to stem the spread of the new corona virus omecron.
In addition, phone tracking technology has been reintroduced to detect a few people infected with the new virus.
In this regard, Israel hopes that within these 14 days it will have a better understanding of how effective the epidemic of measles vaccine is for Omekron.
Of Israel's 9.4 million people, about 57 percent have been fully vaccinated against coronavirus.
