Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at a cabinet meeting that that government should assume that the coronavirus mutation is already spreading in Israel.
"Obviously we took the right precautions when we closed our skies to flights from Britain and the rest of the world, when we required Israelis to go into isolation in hotels and when we wanted to locate people who were in England and other infected countries," said Netanyahu.
"The good news is that the assessment of the companies that provided us with the vaccines is that there is high probability - but not absolute - that they will also treat the mutation."