The first death of a patient diagnosed with the Omicron strain of coronavirus has been recorded in Israel.
A 65-year-old patient diagnosed with the Omicron strain died Monday, December 20, at a hospital in the Israeli city of Be'er Sheva in the south of the country, according to Israel's state-run Kan Radio.
The man had a background illness and had been vaccinated, but it had been more than six months since he received his second dose of the vaccine.
This is the first case of death from Omicron in Israel, TASS specifies.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is currently holding the government's first meeting this month at the Ministry of Defense building in Tel Aviv to counter COVID-19, where further steps to prevent the spread of omicron in Israel are being discussed, the radio station notes.
Earlier it was reported about the first fatality from contamination with the Omicron strain in the United States.