“As long as we have travel inside and outside of Israel, then we will have outbreaks among people, vaccinated and unvaccinated, and primarily among students,” Prof. Eyal Leshem, director of the Center for Travel Medicine and Tropical Diseases at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer, told the Post.
The headline should be that “this is not surprising,” stressed Prof. Eran Segal, a computational biologist from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.
And Tomer Lotan, outgoing head of the Magen Israel program, said he does not expect these latest outbreaks to lead to any change in Health Ministry policy.
This is despite concerns that the more virulent “Delta” variant, formerly known as the Indian variant, appears to be the cause of at least some of the recent cases.
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