Israel has identified a case of a Covid-19 variant with a large number of mutations first detected in South Africa, the health ministry said Friday. “The variant discovered in southern African states has been identified in Israel,” the ministry said, adding it was recorded “in a person who returned from Malawi”. Two more suspected cases were detected in “people returning from abroad”, it said, adding that they had been placed in quarantine. The three people were all vaccinated, the health ministry said, without specifying the number of doses or the type of vaccine. Scientists in South Africa s…

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