Two Israeli doctors infected with Omicron, hospital says
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[November 30, 2021]
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The new coronavirus
variant, Omicron, has been detected in two Israeli doctors, one of whom
had returned from a conference in London in the past week, a
spokesperson for Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv confirmed on
Tuesday.
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 The two doctors had received three doses of the Pfizer/BioNtech
vaccine, and so far have shown mild COVID-19 symptoms, the hospital
said.
The physician who had returned from Britain had probably infected
his colleague, it said.
Two more people have been identified in Israel as carrying the new
variant, health officials have confirmed, one of them a tourist from
Malawi who had received the AstraZeneca vaccine.
Israel shut its borders to foreigners from all countries for 14 days
on Saturday to try to contain the spread of Omicron and has
reintroduced counter-terrorism phone-tracking technology to trace
contacts of a handful of people who have likely been infected.
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 Israel hopes that within those 14 days it will
better know how effective COVID-19 vaccines are
against Omicron. Around 57% of the country's 9.4
million population is fully vaccinated.
(Reporting by Maayan Lubell; Editing by Rami
Ayyub and Timothy Heritage)
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