Israel said on Monday it would test people arriving from Denmark for a new mutated strain of coronavirus stemming from Danish mink farms, and ask them to self-isolate.
The Health Ministry issued the statement after unconfirmed reports by Channel 12 News and other media that three Israelis returning from Denmark were suspected of having been infected with the new strain.
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"The likelihood of a patient carrying the mutation arriving in Israel is low ... At the same time we are exercising extra caution. The Health Ministry, together with the Home Front Command, has issued a list of passengers who have returned from Denmark and has been in contact with them since this morning to perform a special sampling for the corona and test the mutation," the ministry said in a statement.
Denmark has been added to the list of "red countries" from which all passengers are required to quarantine upon arrival, it added.
