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The new international morbidity strain has been dubbed “Kraken”
Following the increase in coronavirus morbidity worldwide in recent weeks, Israel has set up a new Covid PCR testing facility for arrivals from Ben Gurion Airport, after abandoning the measure last year.
The check will not be mandatory; instead, Israel will allow loose checks for those returning from abroad. Station workers told i24NEWS they had only checked about fifteen more people since it opened Wednesday.
The latest highly contagious variant of Covid called XBB. 1. 5 has been described by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the “most transmissible” variant to date. Nicknamed “Kraken” by Canadian biology professor Dr. Ryan Gregory, the new strain is taking root in North America and elsewhere as the dominant variant is expected.
According to Dr. Nadav Sorek, director of the microbiology laboratory at Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, “The question is not if, but when. This new variant circulating in the United States will arrive in Israel. What is in China and the beginning is now. “in the United States is the spread of a new subvariant of Omicron. It is a variant that spreads very quickly, but causes less severe disease than the Alpha and Delta variants,” he said.
“So we have a variant that is not dangerous, but is more contagious. And it also creates new variants,” Sorek said.
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