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Saturday, January 29, 2022
Likud MK David Bitan contracts COVID for 2nd time
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Likud MK David Bitan attends a hearing at the Lod District Court, on January 19, 2022. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
Likud MK David Bitan has contracted COVID-19 for a second time, adding to the list of lawmakers that have tested positive for coronavirus during the Omicron wave.
Bitan says he tested positive upon returning from Germany, where he traveled this week as part of an Israeli parliamentary delegation for International Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations.
“I feel fine and thank everyone for the many wishes for recovery,” he tweets.
Bitan was hospitalized in serious condition for two months during his first bout of COVID and after recovering said he had been close to dying.
A Knesset spokesperson says Bitan was last at the parliament building on Wednesday and that two guards also tested positive for COVID.
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