The Ministry of Health announced today (Sunday) that the Ministry of Health's Central Virology Laboratory identified, through a sequencing process, 14 additional confirmed cases of the South African variant of the coronavirus.
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One of them had been infected in the past and was reinfected with the African variant.
A total of 44 confirmed cases of the new strain have been identified in the country so far, and 124 confirmed contacts of them have been found in 36 chains of infection.
The Ministry of Health announced that it is continuing to conduct an extensive national survey among those confirmed to have contracted the coronavirus to examine the spread of variants in Israel through genetic sequencing.
The office is also examining the backlog of cases in the Triangle and making efforts to examine the extent of the spread in the area.
The Ministry of Health will continue to update with additional findings as they become available.
Corona project manager, Prof. Nachman Ash, said this morning about the mutations: "In terms of the British mutation, it is widespread, over 90 percent of the daily cases are responsible for the mutation. Regarding the South African one, we are monitoring every case, we estimate that we have about a hundred cases that we are trying to break the chains intensively. We have not detected other mutations, we have also developed a method for monitoring those who come from abroad, as well as a survey in our country.".
