Israel's ministry of health said Wednesday it had recorded two cases of new COVID-19 variant, but which officials said they were not unduly worried about.
The strain, combining two sub-variants of the Omicron version of the COVID-19 virus -- dubbed BA.1 and BA.2 -- was recorded during PCR tests on two passengers arriving at Israel's Ben Gurion airport. FILE PHOTO
The strain, combining two sub-variants of the Omicron version of the COVID-19 virus -- dubbed BA.1 and BA.2 -- was recorded during PCR tests on two passengers arriving at Israel's Ben Gurion airport."The two cases of the combined strain, which have been discovered so far, suffered from mild symptoms of fever, headaches and muscle dystrophy, and do not require a special medical response," it added."The phenomenon of combined variants is well known," Zarka told Army Radio.
A total of almost 1.4 million cases of COVID-19 infection, including 8,244 deaths, have been officially recorded in the country.
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