Health services identify 22 new Omicron coronavirus cases in Israel, bringing the total of confirmed infections of the new variant to 89.
Out of the total, 67 are vaccinated or recovered from the virus within the past six months.
Fifty-seven of the Omicron cases recently returned to Israel from abroad, including from South Africa, the UK, the US, the UAE, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Tanzania, Germany and Turkey.
Twenty-one cases had contact with people returning from South Africa, the UK and France.
Another ten resulted from community spread.
Another 150 cases have a “high suspicion” of being infected with Omicron.
Out of the confirmed cases and highly suspected cases — 239 people — 94 have symptoms, 143 do not have symptoms and two are being checked.
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