New morbidity record: 9,589 infections were diagnosed yesterday, more than half a million having been ill since the onset of the plague

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1,759 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country. 1,027 in critical condition, of whom 247 patients are connected to respirators. Since the outbreak of the plague, 3,704 corona patients have died in Israel.

Hospital status

The corona wards at Hadassah Ein Kerem are hospitalized with 128 patients, 45 of them in critical and critical condition and 22 respirators. At the Peda-Poria Medical Center, 39 corona patients are hospitalized, 13 of them in critical condition, 18 in critical condition, and 8 in mild condition. In the corona wards at Shaare Zedek Medical Center, 111 patients are hospitalized, 62 of them in critical condition, 23 of them in critical condition.

The number of people vaccinated so far in Israel stands at 1,819,328 people, and the first shot of the vaccine was received by last night by 20.5 percent of Israelis. Beyond that, the Ministry of Health expects that by the end of March it will be possible to vaccinate 5 million people out of the population in Israel, Dr. Orly Greenfeld, the medical director of the Magen Israel program, said yesterday in a special briefing.

Senior Ministry of Health: “We will see the vaccine effect in another 3 weeks” // Photo: Ministry of Health

“With the recoverers and those with positive serology, we can reach 6 million with antibodies. That way we can reach a significant opening. We plan the gradual and safe opening,” the senior doctor explained.

Dr. Greenfeld updated that more than 1.9 million citizens have been vaccinated in the first dose and are continuing in the second dose. And above that we have not yet been vaccinated, “added Dr. Greenfeld, who stressed that” the morbidity is still severe, more than 1,000 critically ill and more than 7 percent positive. “

Today: Teaching staff are stored

HMOs are preparing to vaccinate all teaching staff in the education system in Operation Bezeq. The operation, dubbed “Returning to Life in Education”, has already been launched and vaccination registration forms have already started being sent to all education and teaching staff. The good news is that not only the teachers will be vaccinated, but the entire school staff that also includes daycare caregivers, assistants, secretaries and house fathers.

The education system has about 200,000 teaching staff. In the first phase, the vaccines will be given to teaching staff and education staff who also teach during the closure period, ie special education staff, at-risk youth and boarding schools. At the same time, the Ministry of Education will issue a notice to all teaching staff and education staff for registration for the vaccine.

In order to receive the vaccine, the teaching staff must make an appointment at the HMO and arrive with an employee certificate from the Ministry of Education or with a pay slip. Teaching teams that do not have a certificate of employment will appear on a designated list of the ministry, and thus will be eligible for the vaccine.

Participated in the preparation of the article: Yuri Yalon, Meital Yasur-Beit Or and Adi Hashmonai

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