A total of 12,500 people in Israel had died from the COVID-19 pandemic since the first victim died on March 21, 2020.
Since giving its initial high alert for COVID in January 2020, a panel of experts have continued to examine the prominence of the crisis.
The reason of the high amount of deaths among children and adolescents is that their immune systems and organs are still developing, which makes them more vulnerable to air pollution.
The WHO called the new COVID variant "one to watch" and is monitoring the new variant, which has been dubbed Arcturus as it continues to spread.
The WHO and other scientists have also said they cannot rule out the possibility that the virus emerged from a high-security laboratory in Wuhan that studies dangerous pathogens.
The northwest, one of the region's most badly affected by the earthquake that hit Syria and Turkey, is controlled by insurgents.
There are no known treatments for this virus which has a fatality rate of 88%
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