The data also show that 1,135 corona patients are hospitalized in critical condition in hospitals, of which 321 patients need the help of respirators. Yesterday, 31 Israelis died from a complication of corona disease, and since the beginning of the week the number of deaths stands at 286. 4,671 corona patients have died since the outbreak of the plague.
There are 74,566 active patients in Israel. 13,646 of them live in Jerusalem, 4,644 in Bnei Brak, 2,941 in Modi’in Illit, 2,388 in Beit Shemesh, 2,324 in Petah Tikva, 2,152 in Tel Aviv-Yafo, 1,879 in Ashdod, 1,316 in Haifa, 1,273 in Rishon Lezion, 1,228 in Beitar Illit, 1,176 in Holon, 1,154 in Netanya, 1,095 in Netanya, 1,095 in Netanya. In Rehovot, 1,007 in Ramla, 923 in Lod, 906 in Ashkelon, 830 in Kiryat Gat, 801 in Ramat Gan, 790 in Bat Yam, 775 in Nazareth, 657 in Safed, 621 in Netivot, 567 in Kiryat Ata and 561 in Givat Zeev.
Yesterday, the number of vaccinated reached 208,000. Since the beginning of the vaccination campaign, 2,932,454 Israelis have received the first dose and 1,624,074 have already received the second dose.
The data this morning are published against the background of a demand by senior Ministry of Health officials to extend the closure for a week, which is due to end on Sunday at midnight. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein is expected to oppose granting relief during the extension period of the closure. “The wave of illness refuses to go down,” Edelstein said yesterday during a visit to Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon.
The minister added that “leaving the quarantine at this point in time will be lawlessness. In hospitals the situation is very difficult, it is a situation unparalleled since the outbreak of the crisis. More than 1,100 critically ill patients in Corona, hundreds of them in critical condition, respirators and other additional treatment. We will not be able to stop the closure on a daily basis. ”
The decision on whether to extend the closure obscures the dispute between Blue and White and the Likud. Bnei Gantz’s party is fortifying itself with the position that if the fines law is not passed in its wording in three readings in the Knesset, blue and white will oppose a government meeting to discuss extending the closure.
The concluding document of the National Cabinet of Experts, which convened on Wednesday, stated that “a prolonged closure of ‘for all’ is unfair, and in the long run unenforceable. “Additional relief for green areas should be examined, even for those who do not have a green mark, especially in activities characterized by regionalism.”
Experts in the expert cabinet noted that “a dichotomy between different cities, different publics, and prolonged decrees on all of them will cause publics to act in accordance with the guidelines and see with their own eyes how other publics do as they please, to stop cooperating.”