Slight increase in morbidity data: 830 new infections in Corona were diagnosed in Israel yesterday (Thursday), and the positive rate was 1.3%. This is a slight increase in the data, after the positive rate was 1.1% the day before. The coefficient of infection increased slightly as well and now stood at 0.59.
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There are 11,708 active patients in Israel this morning. The death toll in the plague so far is 6,164. A total of 65,406 corona tests were performed yesterday, of which 1.3% returned a positive answer. After maintaining a steady decline for more than three weeks, the infection coefficient rose this morning for the first time. The value of the R is 0.59 this morning – after yesterday standing at 0.55.
4,690,678 Israelis were vaccinated in 2 doses against the corona. The proportion of Israelis who were vaccinated in 2 doses crossed the 50 percent threshold this week – and now half of the population in Israel has been vaccinated. In addition, 813,356 Israelis are defined as recovering.
According to the daily traffic light rating of the Ministry of Health, 2 cities are defined as red and 7 are orange cities. These are not the traffic light ratings set for cities in the government decision – but the internal ranking of the Ministry of Health. The red cities are Lakia and Saudi Arabia al-Azazma. The orange-colored cities are Kawkab Abu al-Hija, Segev Shalom, Arara in the Negev, Kabiya-Tabash-Hajjajra, Hurfish, Fureidis and Mizra.