According to the data, an upward trend in the infection coefficient is recorded in all sectors, except the Arab, which shows a significant decrease. The overall infection coefficient rose to 1.01 today (Friday), after reaching 1 in the last week, falling to 0.97 and rising to 1 again. It can be seen that there has been a decline in Arab society, with an adhesion coefficient of 1.06, after this week it had already reached 1.17. There was an increase in ultra-Orthodox society – from 0.86 to 0.96.
Beginning of the immunization campaign for the entire population, last month // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon, Newsenders
At the same time, the weekly contagion trend has seen a very slight increase since the second phase of the opening of the economy on 21.2. In addition, the rate of positives, which stands at 4% this morning, is the lowest since the beginning of December, and there has been a large decline in the number of hospitalized patients and the number of severe patients.
According to the Ministry of Health, yesterday (Thursday) 3,628 infections were diagnosed in Corona out of 92,177 tests performed. 690 patients are in critical condition and 225 of them are respiratory. 5,832 have died so far from the plague outbreak.
According to data from the Ministry of Health published this week, 935 people died of the corona virus in February, 553 of them were not vaccinated at all and 144 died after receiving two vaccine doses (about 15% of the corona deaths last month), a decrease compared to January, when 1,397 died Patients – when the figure is probably due to the effect of the vaccination and quarantine operation.
In addition, it can be seen from the published data that every day between two and four patients die who received the two doses of the vaccine against the virus compared to 21-16 patients who were not vaccinated.