Examinations at a hospital in Israel revealed that a 74-year-old man who was infected with covid-19 for the second time, in November, he died from a different strain of coronavirus, Israeli media Ynet reported.
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“The man was one of the few cases of confirmed covid-19 reinfection in Israel and it is the first time in the country that this has caused the death of the patient, “reported the media, which assured that after being declared free of the virus, the individual was sent to the geriatric care unit where he lived and that two tests that they did had given negative.
After that, a covid-19 outbreak was reported in that place and a new test that was done on the man came back positive.. According to Ynet, the patient was transferred to Sheba Medical Center, where he arrived with respiratory distress.
“Five main strains of coronavirus have been identified so far” and genetic testing at Sheba Medical Center “revealed that the second infection was from a different strain,” Ynet reported. which added that the hospital center indicated that the patient had produced a small amount of antibodies after your first infection.
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As Professor Galia Rahav, head of the Sheba Infectious Diseases and Laboratories Unit, told that outlet, “It is very worrying that a person can be infected a second time while the virus is mutating.”
Vaccination campaign
Israel started its massive vaccination campaign this Sunday against the coronavirus with the health personnel of the hospitals, who was joined by the president, Reuvén Rivlin, who wanted to be among the first to be inoculated to generate confidence in the population.
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was the first to be vaccinated in Israel.
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His inoculation followed that of the boss of Government, Benjamin Netanyahu, who this Saturday became the first Israeli to be vaccinated to dispel doubts and encourage other citizens to do so, in an event with extensive media coverage and broadcast live after data that indicate that most of the population feared vaccination.
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Israel, home to nine million people, has hundreds of thousands of doses of Pfizer’s vaccine (between half a million and 600,000, according to the newspaper ‘Haaretz’) and expects to receive about four million more by the end of the month.
The vaccination plan foresees the administration of between 60,000 and 82,000 daily doses, although local media have warned that difficulties in distribution could force it to go more slowly.
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