The Health Ministry is expected to begin administering Paxlovid to sick patients in the coming days, Channel 12 reported.
Health providers will send teams out to distribute the pills to patients who are quarantined at home.
Daily infections have jumped from a little over 500 per day a month ago, to over 4,000 in the past several days.
The R-naught statistic, which measures how many people, on average, each infected person passes the virus to, was 1.76, meaning the virus was spreading rapidly.
Hebrew University researchers said Saturday that the number of confirmed Omicron cases is expected to surpass 20,000 in the coming week, and continue to rise in mid-January.
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