The Ministry of Health updated this morning (Monday) that 8,174 verified patients were diagnosed in the last day, after 9% of the 93,283 tests performed yesterday were positive. The data also show that the number of patients with a severely defined condition now stands at 1,132, including 317 respirators, and that the cumulative death toll is 4,179 after 29 patients died yesterday. It was also reported that for the first time in the current wave of morbidity, the infection coefficient R dropped below 1.
Graph of the infection coefficient R (Photo: Courtesy of the Corona Campaign Information and Knowledge Center)After 68 consecutive days above 1, the adhesion coefficient R dropped below 1
And in Hebrew: For the first time since mid-November, this week were a little less verified than last week
– Eran Segal (@segal_eran) January 21, 2021
Meanwhile, about 200,000 Israelis were vaccinated against the corona virus yesterday as part of Operation Returning to Life, for the second day in a row. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein wrote on his Twitter account that 134,000 had received the second dose and that 71,000 had been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine. The Minister also announced that as of this stage, there are 2,365,000 vaccinated in Israel, of which 692,000 have already received the second dose of the vaccine.
Monday in a row with over 200,000 vaccines a day:
134,000 per second serving,
71,000 for a first course.There are a total of 2,365,000 vaccinated in Israel.
Of these, 692,000 people have already received a second dose.Thank you to the medical staff for the wonderful work! pic.twitter.com/z7S1z23dbL
– Yuli Edelstein Yuli Edelstein January 21, 2021
Dr. Orly Greenfeld, the medical director of the Magen Israel program, mentioned in an interview with Kaan B that despite the high rate of vaccinators, care must be taken to follow the guidelines of the Ministry of Health.
“The British variant is much more contagious and wherever you keep it – it’s a really fast infection. In every gathering there is a chance of more infection, more patients, more mortality,” said Dr. Greenfeld, adding that it is important to us “At the age of 60. We have not yet reached the maximum level of vaccines, there are many people with risk diseases and background factors who have not been vaccinated, chronic patients, pregnant women with background diseases that are important to be vaccinated.”
Deputy Health Minister Knesset Member Yoav Kish commented on the morbidity data at the GLC this morning, saying that “there is a continuation of a slow downward trend in morbidity. “Yesterday we were at 9.2% verified, today it is 9%.”
He added that “this closure is very much affected by the British mutation, it bothers us – numbers we were used to seeing go down at a much higher rate, go down much slower”.