Israel halts phone tracking for Omicron contact tracing

Israel said on Thursday it was halting the use of cellphone tracing to curb the spread of the Omicron variant of COVID-19.

The decision followed "an up-to-date situational assessment," Prime Minister Naftali Bennett's office said in a statement. (Writing by Dan Williams)

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