20220316 COVID-19: Israel
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An underground Coronavirus Ward at Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital remains empty but ready as Israel’s Ministry of Health announces the discovery of a previously unknown COVID variant which combines Omicron’s dominant subvariant BA.1 with newer BA.2. Two Israelis returning from abroad were found to be carrying this combination of variants which has not been sequenced elsewhere in the world. The R number in Israel, the reproduction rate of the novel coronavirus, hit 0.9 on Wednesday, based on data from the previous 10 days, rising steadily from 0.66 over two weeks.
An underground Coronavirus Ward at Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital remains empty but ready as Israel’s Ministry of Health announces the discovery of a previously unknown COVID variant which combines Omicron’s dominant subvariant BA.1 with newer BA.2. Two Israelis returning from abroad were found to be carrying this combination of variants which has not been sequenced elsewhere in the world. The R number in Israel, the reproduction rate of the novel coronavirus, hit 0.9 on Wednesday, based on data from the previous 10 days, rising steadily from 0.66 over two weeks.
An underground Coronavirus Ward at Sheba Tel Hashomer Hospital remains empty but ready as Israel’s Ministry of Health announces the discovery of a previously unknown COVID variant which combines Omicron’s dominant subvariant BA.1 with newer BA.2. Two Israelis returning from abroad were found to be carrying this combination of variants which has not been sequenced elsewhere in the world. The R number in Israel, the reproduction rate of the novel coronavirus, hit 0.9 on Wednesday, based on data from the previous 10 days, rising steadily from 0.66 over two weeks.