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As new daily cases hit record 83,000, Yad Sarah medical equipment suppliers enlists IDF Medical Corps personnel to help fill oxygen tanks after demand spikes.

Panel of healthcare experts warn that Israel's medical centers are facing "difficult, complicated" weeks due to overcrowding and staff shortages.

The potential move comes as more experts are saying the Green Pass is becoming obsolete with the rampant spread of the Omicron variant that has changed the way governments are approaching the pandemic.

In UK, minister calls for "return to some degree of normalcy," says time has come to treat pandemic as endemic. Meanwhile, Beijing shortens Olympic torch relay amid Omicron concerns.

All students up to the age of 18 will perform two tests a week at home, one on Sunday morning and one on Wednesday morning before going to school. If the child is negative, they can go to school as usual. If they test positive, they must be tested at a supervised test station and undergo quarantine for five days.

The booster would be administered to immunocompromised children and others in that age group who have serious co-morbidities so long as three months have passed since their second dose.

Health Ministry data indicates children and adolescents vaccinated against COVID-19 are better protected against the Omicron variant than the unvaccinated. Infection rate hits 17% as nearly 72,000 Israelis test positive for the virus.

Education Ministry is pushing for lawmakers to change the current self-isolation guidelines that have confined thousands of children – and their parents – to their homes.

British leader says if data supports it, he may end the legal requirement for people to self-isolate if they test positive for the coronavirus.