The Ministry of Health updated this morning (Monday) that 3,498 verified Corona were diagnosed yesterday, so the number of infected since the outbreak of the plague now stands at 403,530, of which 35,591 are active patients. The percentage of positive tests yesterday was 4.9%, after 72,763 tests were performed throughout the country. The data also show that 590 patients are in critical condition, including 144 respirators, and that the death toll since the outbreak is 3,226.
Meanwhile, the Minister of Health July Edelstein Updated earlier that 98,916 vaccinations were performed in the State of Israel yesterday. The Minister welcomed the data and said: “A total of 379,000 people have been vaccinated to date. This is thanks to the amazing work of the Ministry of Health, the HMOs, the hospitals and MDA. And most of all – thanks to you, the citizens of Israel, that you get involved and get vaccinated. We will continue like this, and we will also increase the pace even further. “
In a conversation with the heads of the authorities, Minister Edelstein added yesterday that alongside the mobility of vaccines Another 150 vaccine complexes will also be opened, Recognizing the importance of providing vaccines to at-risk populations who are unable to reach the main vaccine complexes.
In a video published by the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu On Saturday night, he announced that The weekly goal is to reach 150,000 vaccines a day, Thus breaking a world record. Subsequently, officials in the Ministry of Health claimed that if the rate of vaccines continues as it is, the vaccines will be opened to the general public within about two weeks.
Netanyahu: “Within a month we can get out of the plague”
Netanyahu added after setting the target, “This is the critical stage, the first stage, in which the entire population is at risk, and all people over the age of 60, and in this stratum is 95% mortality. Within 30 days of reaching this rate we can get out of the corona, open the economy, “To do things that no country can do. In the process, I ask you to do the short and tight closure as well, these two things will get us out of the Corona first in the world.”