Invasive coronavirus infection already in Israel

Three of the cases were returning from England and are alone at a hotel designated as a coronavirus quarantine facility, the Ministry of Health said. The fourth case is under investigation, he said.

The government decided on Sunday that quarantine had to be in government hotels because of the appearance of the new booth, returning from the UK (as well as Denmark and South Africa). On Monday, that requirement was extended to include all national returns from abroad.

Pfizer said Tuesday it believes its vaccine was also effective against the new booty. He also confirmed that if this were not the case, the vaccine could change to counteract the new pressure within six weeks or so.

Israel launched the coronavirus vaccination campaign on Saturday and has extracted 70,000 from its 9 million population, Ministry of Health data show.

After receiving vaccines from drug manufacturers Pfizer, Moderna and AstraZeneca, Israel expects to have enough doses by the end of the year for the 20% of the population most vulnerable to COVID-19 complications.

Israel has reported 383,385 coronavirus cases and 3,136 deaths. He has installed two national lock locks and may order new sweeping restrictions soon in new cases.

Meanwhile, the IDF Home Front Command action group on the coronavirus has issued a warning against raids over the Christmas period, saying it could lead to the spread of the disease among various segments of the population. The ultra-orthodox community has the highest infection rate in Israel, followed by the Arab region.

According to data from the task force, which is in charge of the epidemiological detection, the system has significantly improved efficiency in the two months since taking over the mission.

At that time, only about 8-10% of new infections were diagnosed by monitoring confirmed carrier movements, compared to some 55% of new cases last week.

In fact, more than 10,000 new patients were diagnosed a few weeks ago after being told by the investigation team that they had contacted a confirmed carrier and should be tested.

The data also show that today’s average study results in 10-12 people who came into contact with a patient, compared to just four at most two or three months ago.

The Home Front Order and local authorities currently monitor around 3,000 certified face carriers and are able to carry out the same number of inspections each day – twice the original target set by the IDF. .

In August, 25% of coronavirus patients surveyed said they had not communicated with anyone else in the days before their positive test, but today the figure has dropped to just 2 %.

As a result, more people were isolated, and the expected infection chain of these patients was severely cut.

Since the start of the week, the number of daily tests has risen to 100,000 – about a month ahead of schedule.

The task force is also starting to suspend the two-month non-testing effect at Ben-Gurion Airport and is now working on a test site there.

A further seven hotels have been designated as quarantine sites for returnees from abroad, with 25 such facilities expected to be operational by the end of the week.

Following the new restrictions, there has been an increase in the number of people having to live alone. On Wednesday morning alone, about 20,000 people were told they had to separate, bringing the majority to more than 150,000 people.

Nevertheless, the government did not force epidemiological investigators to trace the thousands of people who have returned from Dubai in the few weeks before the decision was made to return all of them. leave even though the authorities have that information.

In terms of the vaccination campaign, four Israeli health maintenance organizations have yet to reach a daily quota of around 60,000 people, and only about half of that number receive the vaccine each day.

Some 500 IDF therapists and paramedics will be used to help deliver vaccines to the general population, with a daily target of 100,000 vaccines.