Senior health official warns pandemic still here , Israel in midst of battle
Public Health chief Dr. Alroy-Preis says coronavirus still poses a threat to the public due to foreign variants and the fact that adolescents yet to be vaccinated; just days earlier Alroy-Preis said the pandemic in Israel was dying out
Itamar Eichner, Alexandra Lukash, Nir Cohen |
Published: 04.07.21 , 19:07
A senior health official on Wednesday said the coronavirus pandemic is still here and Israel is in the midst of a battle against the pathogen.
Head of Public Health Services at the Health Ministry Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis made the statement just days after claiming the pandemic in Israel was dying out and the ministry is considering scrapping the outdoor mask mandate.
The pandemic in Israel is dying out, senior health official says
Dr. Alroy-Preis says apparent increase in virus virality stems from return of country s testing apparatus to full operations after Passover; serious COVID caseload slumps to lowest since early December
Adir Yanko |
Published: 04.06.21 , 22:59
Head of Public Health Services at the Health Ministry Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis said on Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic in Israel is beginning to die out despite a slight increase in the virus reproduction (R) number.
Israel’s R number which indicates how many other people are infected by a virus carrier has seemingly jumped from 0.52 to 0.78 in no more than a week. However, the senior health official says there is no reason to panic.
Vaccination spokesperson for the Health Ministry Dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi said the mutation of the new coronavirus N439K, which was first detected in Indonesia in November 2020, has yet to receive special attention from the World Health Organisation (WHO)
Senior health official says risk of new variants entering country remains main challenge
Dr. Sharon Alory-Preis says Israel operates nationwide laboratory apparatus to carry out genetic sequencing to spot new variants before spreading, calls on public to act responsibly despite encouraging decline in morbidity
Adir Yanko |
Published: 03.15.21 , 21:24
Head of Public Health Services in the Health Ministry Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis on Monday said she was concerned that new coronavirus variants could enter Israel through the Ben Gurion International Airport. We know the vaccines are effective against the British [coronavirus] variant but there is also the South African mutation against which the shots are less effective, Alroy-Preis said in a press conference. We must make sure that variants do not enter the country.
WHO yet to validate ‘Indonesia strain’
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JAKARTA – Vaccination spokesperson for the Health Ministry Dr. Siti Nadia Tarmizi said the mutation of the new coronavirus N439K, which was first detected in Indonesia in November 2020, has yet to receive special attention from the World Health Organization (WHO).
“This is actually a single mutation. There is only one mutation in this type of variant. This type of variant is not the one that draws special attention from WHO,” she said on Sunday.
She said the N439K mutation was found earlier than the British B117 variant. However, WHO has paid special attention only to the new coronavirus from United Kingdom, B1351 from South Africa, and P1 from Brazil.