“Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kish revealed this morning (Tuesday) in an interview with the GLC the serious illness data. He said yesterday that 8,571 infections were diagnosed in Corona. This is 9.8% of the tests that were found to be positive. The number of serious patients is also more than 1,100.” “There is no drop now, there are a huge number of serious patients and we must not give up,” said the deputy minister.
Kish also referred to the demand made by blue and white chairman Bnei Gantz yesterday to pass the fines aggravating law in the second and third readings, as a condition for the continuation of the closure, and said: “I am surprised by Bnei Gantz. We are in a difficult event. Gantz prevents this because he demands that the Likud pass the law. ”
Regarding the discussion on the extension of the closure that took place, Kish said: “The discussion talked about the continuation of the closure in the current format in light of the serious illness in the hospitals. “This is a very high number and the loads continue. This battle is not over, it is not true, we must continue to fight and lower the numbers. The virus is more contagious, it infects entire families, the event is harder to fight, the closure must be allowed to continue to have an effect.”
He also warned: “The big fear is that a strain of caravan will arrive that will be resistant to the vaccine.
Meanwhile, Health Minister Yuli (Yoel) Edelstein announced this morning that 226,000 more citizens were vaccinated yesterday. “This is our way of fighting the virus. I ask you to be with us in the war and adhere to the quarantine instructions,” the minister added since the beginning of Operation Returning to Life. .
A senior health ministry official explained the recommendation: “The rise (in morbidity – MI) was rapid, and the decline is unfortunately slow due to the mutations.” Netanyahu participated in a discussion with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, the head of the National Security Council, the director general of the Ministry of Health, the Corona projector and other senior officials.
Corona Commissioner Prof. Ash: “This may not be the last closure” // Photo: GPO
“It is delusional to leave the quarantine under these conditions,” the health ministries said. The Netanyahu bureau said: “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened a discussion with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, head of the National Security Council, the director general of the Ministry of Health, the Corona project and other senior officials. From quarantine and other issues.
“Senior Ministry of Health officials have expressed concern that even at the current date of the closure we will be left with a high level of morbidity and a very heavy load of critically ill patients in the hospitals. It was agreed that consultations will continue tomorrow.”
