“Do not listen to us, there is no escape from entering a closure”

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(Photo: Ido Erez, Yaron Brenner)

Corona projector Prof. Nachman Ash today (Wednesday) called on the government to act quickly to eradicate The eruption of the new corona – and warned: “If nothing is done, we will reach another 3,000 dead within two months. There is no escape from entering a closure.” “If we had acted on our recommendations two weeks ago, we might have been able to avoid it, but as we predicted the morbidity has risen significantly – including severe morbidity. If we continue with the ‘do not do’ method, the morbidity will continue to skyrocket. So far the forecasts are accurate. public health”.

All this, despite the start of the vaccination campaign – and after more than 74,000 were vaccinated during the first three days of the campaign. Today, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein instructed the director general of his office, Prof. Hezi Levy, to take action to ensure that the hospitals vaccinate the population, in addition to the health funds, as early as next week. This is to significantly increase the rate of vaccinations in Israel.

Prof. Ash ‘remarks were made after the weekly situation picture of the Home Front Command’s Alon headquarters was published today, with a particularly gloomy situation. Along with the vote on the serious morbidity data, Alon headquarters added that there is a high probability that the new corona virus mutation has already reached Israel. We emphasize that yesterday Edited by Pfizer That the vaccine she developed is also effective against the new mutation, but added that if not – she will be able to change the vaccine to suit her within about six weeks.
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“If we continue with the ‘sit and do not do’ method, the morbidity will skyrocket.” Prof. Ash is getting vaccinated

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“The sharp rise will double the number of verified.” Closure on Rosh Hashanah in Tel Aviv

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The members of the yeshivot returned during the holiday – and the number of people infected increased. Lighting candles in Bnei Brak

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According to the Home Front Command, “there is a rising trend in morbidity throughout the State of Israel – and there is an increase of more than 50% in the number of patients from last week, in our estimation following gatherings on Hanukkah, full opening of the economy and importing morbidity from abroad.” And the rapid increase in morbidity will double the number of verified in the short term. “

The Home Front Command emphasized that there is a 110% increase in the number of tests, which is due to the return of yeshiva members to their homes on Hanukkah. “The percentage of positives in the ultra-Orthodox sector has tripled – and there are still not enough data to verify the true morbidity situation in it,” it said. “There are still gatherings in Bnei Brak, Ashdod and Jerusalem.”

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The Home Front Command also warned of gatherings at Christmas, which begin tomorrow, and stressed that they could lead to the leakage of disease between different sectors, such as the Arab and Jewish sectors. The highest morbidity rate in Israel was recorded in the ultra-Orthodox sector, followed by the Arab sector and then the general sector.

Meanwhile, according to data from Alon Headquarters, about half of the 3,251 infected S.We were diagnosed in the last day in Israel – Tested only after being sent to be sampled by epidemiological researchers. Another piece of evidence for improving the set of investigations at the headquarters set up last August, which increasingly cuts off contagion chains, is the fact that while in August 25% of Corona patients claimed not to have come into contact with people in the days leading up to their diagnosis – today that figure is only 2%.
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Number of interrogations – twice the target set by the IDF. Female soldiers at Alon headquarters

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The IDF was not required to check those returning from it. Dubai

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According to data from the Alon headquarters in the Home Front Command, which is in charge of the investigation system, two months ago – when the system was still in its infancy – the percentage of new infections daily examined following epidemiological investigations was 8% to 10%. However, as the investigations expanded and their quality improved, this figure rose to 55% last week. Meaning: More than 10,000 new patients diagnosed in recent weeks were tested only after being contacted by the investigative team, who informed them that they had come into contact with a Corona patient in recent days and should be tested.

The data also show that today in every average investigation, 12-10 people who came in contact with the patient are discovered, compared to four contacts at best two or three months ago. The number of investigators in the Home Front Command and in the local authorities currently stands at 3,000 people, who are able to conduct the same number of investigations every day – twice the original target set by the IDF.

In August 25% of the corona patients surveyed claimed not to have come into contact at all with other people in the days prior to the positive test, but today the figure has dropped to just 2%. Accordingly, more people went into isolation, and the chain of infection that the patients among them were supposed to produce was cut short.

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The Home Front Command is trying to reduce damage. Huge queues at Ben Gurion Airport

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In the first months of the corona crisis, there was no effective chain-cutting system in Israel, and the responsibility for the epidemiological investigations fell on nurses who were not authorized to do so.

These figures are particularly significant in light of the fact that at the outbreak of the crisis there were voices in Israel demanding that the treatment of Corona be transferred to the defense establishment, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Ministry of Health opposed this. At the outbreak of the corona crisis in Israel, Defense Minister Naftali Bennett, and with the outbreak of the second wave, was Defense Minister Bnei Gantz. The two demanded that the treatment be transferred to the defense establishment and the Home Front Command, but Netanyahu agreed to this only after many months.

Since the beginning of the week, about a month earlier than expected, the daily testing power has risen to 100,000 tests performed every day. Home Front Command is also beginning to reduce damage from the failure of Ben Gurion Airport, which has erupted in the past two months without corona checks and without sending landers from troubled countries such as Turkey or the UAE for isolation. The Home Front Command manages the testing laboratory that was established in recent days at Ben Gurion Airport and began operating tonight, and operated seven more isolation hotels for the next landers. By the end of the week, the Home Front Command will be able to operate 25 hotels.

Following the new restrictions and investigations, there has also been an increase in the number of people required to remain in solitary confinement. This morning alone, about 20,000 more people were required to enter solitary confinement, out of more than 150,000 who are already in solitary confinement. However, although the information is in the hands of the authorities, Home Front Command investigators have not been required by the government to locate, guide, inspect or isolate the thousands of returnees from Dubai in recent weeks who landed before the decision was made to isolate them all at the hotel upon landing.

In terms of the vaccination campaign, the HMOs have not yet reached the daily capacity quota they have declared, about 60,000, and about half of that is vaccinated daily. The Ministry of Health rejected the army’s recommendation to conduct the operation, but began to enlist the help of the Home Front Command: about twenty officers, including logistics, industry and management experts for the National Control Center for Operation “Give a Shoulder”, and dozens of Home Front Command officers Common to HMOs.

In addition, about 500 medics and paramedics from the IDF will be recruited to assist in administering vaccines to the population. The goal of the Home Front Command is to reach 100,000 vaccines daily, along with 100,000 tests that are already performed daily.

Meanwhile, against the background of the increase in general morbidity, the situation in the IDF is also deteriorating and the number of corona patients is increasing. As of this morning, 426 corona patients have been diagnosed with compulsory service, permanent and IDF employees, all in a light condition. Two more IDF servicemen are defined as blue in fair condition, and thousands more are in domestic isolation.

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