Tag Omicron

11 Jan

SERIOUS COVID CASES ARE ALL UNVACCINATED OR UNBOOSTED, TOP ISRAELI EXPERT SAYS

The seriously ill COVID-19 patients at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem are all either unvaccinated or did not receive a third dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, Head of the hospital’s coronavirus ward has said. Across Israel, more than 200 people have been hospitalised and over 100 people are in serious condition as the highly […]

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14 Dec

Will Omicron bring in Israel’s 5th outbreak, or will it ‘downgrade’ COVID-19?

Government adviser says ‘significant chance’ new coronavirus strain means a phase of high infection, but top doctor thinks it may prove milder, making it ‘the variant we wish for’ Government adviser Prof. Eran Segal thinks that there is a “significant” chance that Omicron is likely to become dominant and sweep Israel toward its fifth wave […]

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