Dozens of IDF soldiers enter quarantine amid COVID outbreak in combat unit

In total, 135 soldiers and officers are infected with COVID-19, according to the military, with 535 IDF service members are currently in quarantine.

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IDF soldiers work at the IDF Coronavirus Task Force Headquarters in Ramle to trace chains of infection in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19 (photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)
IDF soldiers work at the IDF Coronavirus Task Force Headquarters in Ramle to trace chains of infection in an effort to curb the spread of COVID-19
(photo credit: RONEN ZVULUN/REUTERS)
Dozens of IDF soldiers have been quarantined due to a COVID-19 outbreak in a combat engineering unit, Maariv reported on Friday. 
Some 14 soldiers in a special combat engineering unit have tested positive for coronavirus. In total,135 IDF soldiers and officers are currently infected with COVID-19, according to the military.
Some 535 service members are currently in quarantine.
Soldiers who came in contact with those infected were sent home after testing negative for COVID in order to prevent further infections in the unit. 
  
Last month, two soldiers and one worker who were vaccinated against the novel coronavirus tested positive, resulting in the first notable cases of the Delta variant spreading within the IDF.


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