The senior at Prof. Nachman Ash’s project headquarters added: “The morbidity that comes from burdening the health system. We are not collapsing the health system, but the serious morbidity is putting a strain on the hospitals.
Dr. Greenfeld further noted that “there is an exit strategy and we are building this process. The numbers we set for ourselves for this goal are to reach a verified number of a thousand per day and an R (coefficient of infection. Israel) of less than 1. We understand that this situation with the morbidity that exists today is a bit far. Reducing existing restrictions. ”
“The intention is to vaccinate all the most vulnerable populations and first of all it is the elderly population of 60 and over. There was a decision to vaccinate police and military in view that they are very important people and can not be fulfilled their role remotely – which can be done at present with teaching staff.”
Against the background of the intention to lead in the Corona Cabinet a decision on the complete closure of the education system, the senior said that “we see a significant increase in educational institutions in the last week with more than ten verified in each institution. We definitely recommend closure as full and tight as possible, including education. a day”.
The data published this morning by the Ministry of Health shows that in the past day, 5,135 new infections were diagnosed in Corona, but the rate of positives among the patients (approximately 78,000) was 6.6%.
In hospitals across the country, 1,314 corona patients are hospitalized, 731 of them in critical condition. 201 patients connected to machines. The death toll since the outbreak stands at 3,416, 12 of them yesterday. The Ministry of Health has updated that 69 corona patients have died since the beginning of the month. In December, 472 patients died – an average of about 15 patients per day.
There are 49,643 active corona patients in Israel, of whom 9,719 are residents of Jerusalem. In Bnei Brak there are 2,056 active patients, in Tel Aviv-Yafo 1,508, in Haifa 1,316, in Ashdod 1,298, in Modi’in Illit 1,241, in Beit Shemesh 1,191, in Petah Tikva 1,124, in Nazareth 842, in Be’er Sheva 802, in Beitar Illit 790, in Rishon Lezion 714, in Holon 691, in Netanya 655 And at 521 streets.
In Ashkelon there are 510 active patients, in Elad 494, in Ramat Gan 468, in Tamra 446, in Bat Yam 394, in Kiryat Gat 379, in Arad 368, in Shefar’am 367, in Ramla 363, in Tiberias 359, in Lod 352, in Modi’in Maccabim Reut 348, in Nof Hagalil 299, in Ma’ale Adumim 283, in Afula 275, in Sakhnin 268, in Hadera 260, in Rosh HaAyin 259, in Kiryat Ata 259, in Safed 255, in Kfar Saba 246, in Herzliya 246, in Umm al-Fahm 236, in Kfar Kanna 235, in Givat Zeev 234, in Kiryat Motzkin 222, in Marar 220, in Nahariya 217, in Carmiel 216, in Acre 212, in Raanana 210, in Mevaseret Zion 205, in Yavne 205 and in Netivot 202.