Tonight (Sunday), the Ministry of Health updated the latest corona data in the State of Israel, according to which there are 48,366 active corona patients in the country, of whom 4,141 were diagnosed with blue in the last day. In the last 24 hours, 76,916 tests for the virus were conducted throughout Israel, of which 5.5% returned positive. According to the latest data, there are 761 patients in critical condition in Israel, of whom 209 are respirators. Also, since the outbreak of the plague, 3,412 people have died in Israel after being infected with the virus.
According to the Ministry of Health, seven of those infected were found to be blue in the virus mutation that was discovered in the UK. To date, 30 cases of the mutation have been discovered in Israel, only six of which were known to have been contracted outside Israel.
The queue at the Corona Arena vaccine compound, Jerusalem. Photo: Israel Salem Soup
The corona commander in the ultra-Orthodox society, Maj. Gen. Roni Noma, said today in a press briefing that “political pressure affects the lack of enforcement, whoever says no is a sinner to the truth.” According to him, morbidity in the ultra-Orthodox sector is now under control, but despite this, about a quarter of those infected with the virus are from ultra-Orthodox society.
Noma claimed that only about 500 of the 40,000 yeshiva students were diagnosed as positive for Corona, and that the results came late, only about four days after the tests were performed, because they were in a low priority spot. “These are young people in capsules who are isolated from the community and therefore the priority is less when there is a load on the testing system,” the commissioner said.
Corona – Haredim wearing a mask, archive (those photographed have nothing to do with what is said in the article) (Photo: Yonatan Zindel, Flash 90)The Maj. Gen. presented the latest data in the ultra-Orthodox society and explained that 15% of those verified in the last day are from the ultra-Orthodox society. “We see how the ultra-Orthodox’s share of morbidity is growing. Out of 18 cases of the mutation, 13 from ultra-Orthodox society, we are waiting for another 400 tests,” Noma noted.
“Only 85 of the patients belong to the ultra-Orthodox society,” continued the commissioner, who claimed that the number was due to the number of home hospitalizations in the ultra-Orthodox society. Noma concluded by saying that 11% of those who died from the plague belonged to the ultra-Orthodox society.
Meanwhile, tonight the Ministry of Health announced that seven new cases of the “British mutation” had been diagnosed in Israel. The new infected come from Jerusalem, Givat Zeev and Bnei Brak, and it is estimated that they were infected in Israel. A total of 330 cases of infection with the mutation were diagnosed in Israel, while it was determined with certainty that only six of them were infected abroad.