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The Israeli health authorities are considering

changing their

response

strategy

to the pandemic, in the midst of the omicron spreading, to promote a "mass contagion model" of this variant that causes a mild illness, instead of imposing more restrictions.

With the infection rate continuously increasing, with almost

3,000 new positives for the second consecutive day

- a maximum of three months - experts from the Ministry of Health are considering a change in policy to achieve herd immunity through massive infections with the variant omicron, as published today by the Hebrew media.

The positivity rate in the country has risen to

2.48%

and the infection rate - the average number of people infected by each virus carrier - has shot up to 1.53, indicating that the outbreak is intensifying. .

However, the increase in infections does not imply an increase in serious cases due to Covid-19 or hospitalizations, with

only 88 serious patients

throughout the country, figures that remain stable compared to recent weeks.

According to Health estimates,

in two weeks 90% of the new cases of Covid-19 will correspond to the omicron strain,

much more infectious than the delta although it causes milder symptoms.

The strategy of "mass contagion" is the one that

Sweden

followed in the initial stage of the pandemic, when it decided not to impose severe restrictions on people who did not belong to risk groups, in an attempt to continue with normal life and achieve herd immunity .

However, that strategy, applied before covid-19 vaccines were available and when the coronavirus was most lethal, was then seen as a failure and forced the country to change course.

Israeli Prime Minister

Naftali Benet

affirmed yesterday that Israel is on the brink of a "storm of infections whose magnitude we have not yet seen" and warned that "many people are going to be infected" with the omicron variant without anything being done. for preventing it.

"The storm will happen. We cannot avoid it," the prime minister, who is confined after one of his daughters tested positive with omicron, said in an interview with public broadcaster Kan.

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