Israel detects first cases of coronavirus variant

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netenyahu urged residents to "assume" that new variant of coronavirus was spreing in his country.

Netenyahu's mess comes after nation's Health Ministry detected first kwn cases of new variant.

ministry anunced on Wednesday that it found it in three people who are in government-run quarantine hotels after returning from UK.

source of a fourth case is still under investigation.

Israel this week tightened its restrictions on entering country, barring nearly all foreigners and requiring all returning Israelis to isolate in state-run hotels for 10 to 14 days.