“We may see an eruption in mid-January, we are at the beginning of the fifth wave,” a source in the Ministry of Health was quoted this evening (Saturday) in Here News.
The remarks were made against the background of data on morbidity and the expected increase in the number of people infected with the omicron strain.
According to the report, the ministry is investigating the suspicion of several hundred more Israelis who became infected with the new strain.
According to data from the Ministry of Health published yesterday, 134 verified in the Omicron strain have been identified in Israel so far – 86 of them from South Africa, England, France, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Tanzania, Germany, Morocco, Spain, Serbia, Belgium, And Turkey.
28 of the verified came into contact with returnees from South Africa, England, the United States and France.
Another 20 of them are cases of community infection.
It was reported on Thursday that Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is considering defining all the countries of the world as red so that travel to them will be banned, except in the case of an exceptions committee approval, and all returnees from them will be charged with seven days in solitary confinement.
Tomorrow, several countries will discuss whether they will turn red, including: the United States, Canada, Portugal, Turkey, Germany, Hungary, Morocco and Belgium.