Israeli Foreign Minister tests positive for coronavirus
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid has tested positive for coronavirus this Monday, while the country is in the middle of the fifth wave of infections due to the rapid spread of the contagious Omicron variant. Lapid, who in 2023 must assume the head of Government and replace Naftali Benet at the head of the current coalition, he assured that he is well and took the opportunity to urge the inoculation of the unvaccinated Israeli population.
As the omicron variant expands, increasingly pre-eminent and widespread in Israel, several deputies of the Israeli Parliament (Knesset) have also been infected during the last days. The head of Public Safety, Omer Bar-Lev, also tested positive for COVID-19 last Sunday and remains in isolation.
Israel has registered a new record of daily infections this Monday, with 32,000 positive cases detected yesterday Sunday, the highest figure since the start of the pandemic and a figure much higher than the maximum of just three days ago, when almost 17,000 infections were recorded. This number also illustrates the rapid increase in morbidity in the country, of some 9.4 million inhabitants, which for now has not yet taken severe restrictions to stop the current wave, and in fact Yesterday it reopened its borders to foreign tourists, after closing them at the end of November as prevention before the omicron. (Eph)
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