The vaccination campaign continues
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The vaccination campaign continues even longer, and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced this morning (Friday) that “Nearly 210,000 are vaccinated among the 60-plus-year-olds, the medical staff and the ‘Shield of Fathers and Mothers,'” more than 74,000 of them just yesterday. Meanwhile, 3,958 new people infected with the Corona virus were diagnosed yesterday and since midnight another 631 people have been diagnosed. The positive rate stands at 4.1% out of 98,409 tests. This is the fifth day that more than 3,000 infections have been diagnosed per day.
Corona vaccine
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Regarding the vaccination campaign, Edelstein added: “This is just the beginning. We will increase the pace in the coming days. I thank the employees of the Ministry of Health, the health funds, the hospitals, MDA and the Home Front Command for their wonderful work.”
In the last seven days, more than 525,000 corona tests have been performed and the positive rate is 4.05%. An average of 3,037 verified per day. In addition, 11 verified items were found at the CAL center in Givatayim. At the Gur Seminar in Bnei Brak – where about 60 verified patients were diagnosed, 277 – 21% were tested positive.
926 patients are hospitalized. 506 patients in critical condition, of whom 128 were respirators. 3,171 people died in the outbreak of the plague in Israel. Since the beginning of the week, 92 Corona patients have died. The peak was on Wednesday, when 22 people died.
Edelstein gets vaccinated
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The pace of tests has increased recently: 88,000 tests were performed on Tuesday and yesterday, as mentioned, results of more than 98,000 tests were obtained.
The ultra-Orthodox cities have turned red in recent days: Beitar Illit, which was green until recently, has turned red with a traffic light score of 10. 18% of the tests conducted in the city last week were positive. Jerusalem is also red with a score of 7.7 and 10% of the tests conducted for the city’s residents are positive.
Bnei Brak with a traffic light score of 8.9 and 13% positive, Elad with a score of 8.7 and also 8.7% positive, Modi’in Illit with a score of 8.2 and 12% positive and the locality of Rechasim near Haifa with a score of 8.4 and 11% positive.
The red localities are: Beitar Illit, Kawkab Abu al-Hija, Givat Ze’ev, Kiryat Ya’arim, Revava, Merar, Nahaf, Kabul, Majdal Shams, Dalit al-Carmel, Selma, Bnei Brak, Elad, Kochav Yaakov, Rechasim, Reina, Isfahan Deir Hanna, restaurant, Ein Mahel, Modi’in Illit, Arara in the Negev, Peki’in, Hurfish, Fasuta, Ma’ale Iron, Ma’ale Adumim, Tamra, Deir al-Assad, Julis, Safed, Turan, Zemer, Efrat, Bir al-Maksur, Saj Ver, Jerusalem, Abu Ghosh, Basma and Kfar Manda.
The green cities are: Ramat Gan (4.5), Kiryat Ono (4.5), Dimona (4.4), Kfar Saba (4.4), Ness Ziona (4.2), Givatayim (4.2), Nesher (3.3) fEilat (3).
In Israel, there are 33,808 active corona patients. 6,414 of them live in Jerusalem, 1,175 in Bnei Brak, 1,101 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, 988 in Haifa, 752 in Ashdod, 684 in Petah Tikva, 531 in Nazareth, 474 in Rishon Lezion, 472 in Netanya, 467 in Beer Sheva, 461 in Beit Shemesh, 451 in Holon, 370 in Tamra, 352 in Modi’in Illit, 335 in Ashkelon, 318 in Sakhnin, 305 in Beitar Illit, 284 in Shefar’am, 251 in Modi’in Maccabim Reut, 244 in Ramat Gan, 240 in Rehovot, 231 in Lod, 230 in Elad, 230 in Bat Yam, 228 in Kiryat Ata, 227 in Umm al-Fahm, 223 in Hadera, 221 In Kiryat Gat, 211 in Ramla, 210 in Dalyat al-Carmel, 204 in Givat Zeev and 201 in Marar.
Some of the samples were sent for testing in the laboratory at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer – where a fifth case of the virus with the mutation was identified yesterday: this is a woman who returned from the UK a few days ago and is in isolation at her home.
These figures come against the background of the impending closure, the third in number, which the government approved yesterday in order to curb the rise in morbidity. The closure will begin this coming Sunday at 17:00, will last two weeks and will be extended by another two weeks, unless the goal is achieved – the number of daily infections is less than 1,000 and the infection coefficient is less than 1.
Director General of the Ministry of Health in a statement on the third closure
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Yesterday, Prof. Hezi Levy, director general of the Ministry of Health, said, “We are currently on the rise in morbidity, with about 4,000 patients in recent days and over 5% positive tests,” Levy said. “The coefficient of infection also indicates the condition of the disease – it stands At 1.26, which is quite a bit, there are sectors in which the coefficient is up to 1.7. “
Regarding the condition of the hospitals, he said that “we are increasing the level of hospitalization, currently the order of magnitude is 950 hospitalized. This figure is increasing, the number of serious patients is now about 500 and is also on the rise. We are returning beds that we converted to other patients to treat them properly. .
“We are not yet under the influence of the vaccine, we are still in the midst of the rising wave,” he continued, referring to the decision to impose the third closure. “If we do not go down from the morbidity level to the dimensions we want, of about 1,000 patients and a coefficient of infection of less than 1, we may ask to extend the closure for a while.”
Levy commented on the restrictions: “We are sorry and in pain for closing the trade. We know how difficult this is.” He noted that according to experts’ forecasts, “if we do not take the closure we could reach 9,000 verified by mid-January, reaching 800 seriously ill patients. It’s time to stop it, prevent the deterioration – and the slope is slippery.”