Increase in morbidity alongside an increase in the number of vaccines: The Ministry of Health updated this morning (Thursday) that in the last day 5,253 verified patients were diagnosed with corona, and that 5.5% of the tests were positive, after 96,835 tests were performed yesterday. The number of people infected since the outbreak of the plague now stands at 419,312, of which 42,402 are active patients.
The updated data also show that the number of patients with a severely defined condition is 639, including 165 respirators, and that the cumulative number of victims is 3,314.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health, July Edelstein, Updated that even yesterday, more than 150,000 Israelis were vaccinated against the corona virus, so that since the beginning of the operation, nearly 800,000 citizens have been vaccinated.
Edelstein wrote on Twitter that “thanks to the medical staff, thanks to the rapid deployment of no less than 257 vaccine stations, already Monday in a row that Israel vaccinates more than 150,000 people a day. Within 11 days of Operation Give a Shoulder, almost 800,000 civilians were vaccinated. Thank you to the medical staff. For the hard and important work, always with a smile! “.
The head of the innovation department at Clalit Health Services and a member of the Ministry of Health’s epidemic treatment team, Prof. Ran Blitzer, referred this morning in an interview at the GLC to the expected slowdown in the rate of vaccinations. “Israel has received an extraordinary amount of vaccines : “This means we will finish these vaccines at record speed. Unless more vaccines arrive we will have to slow down. “In the end, we have to give those million people who also receive the first vaccine the second vaccine, so it makes sense that there will be a slowdown.”
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein at the immunization centers in the south (Photo: Gideon Sharon, GPO)“If vaccines come from modernity it would be great,” Blitzer continued. “Just yesterday the big article was published that showed their amazing results. When you look at the group that didn’t get the vaccine there were 30 cases and in the group that got the vaccine there were zero cases. This is one of the most extraordinary studies I’ve read to date. That means it’s an excellent vaccine.”
However, Blitzer warned that “with all due caution, we are seeing an alarming increase in morbidity. The trend does not look good, and in this regard I would like to emphasize that in two or three weeks we will be in a position where the first vaccine is protected, but even if 70% of the vaccine population is vaccinated And two weeks will pass, it is still necessary to understand that the difficult cases will not disappear from the State of Israel and mortality will not disappear. “
Thanks to the medical staff, thanks to the rapid deployment of no less than 257 vaccination stations, already Monday in a row that Israel vaccinates more than 150,000 people a day! Within 11 days of Operation “Give Shoulder” we vaccinated almost 800,000 civilians. Thank you to the medical staff for the hard and important work, always with a smile! pic.twitter.com/RiEzz5PPSd
– Yuli Edelstein Yuli Edelstein December 31, 2020