Under the agreement, BGI will provide testing equipment and chemicals • The application - within two to three weeks • The number of corona victims increased to 65 • 9,248 infected, 117 breaths • As a result of the audit: The Ministry of Health decided to carry out tests for nursing home residents

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  Oren Ben Hakun

The number of corona tests performed daily by the State of Israel dropped to a low of only 5,000 tests on Tuesday. A health ministry official explained the significance of the drastic decline in updating software for lab equipment as part of adapting to the new reagents (chemicals used to decode the test), meaning that each lab was disabled for several hours.

However, the Ministry of Health had some encouraging news - Israel tonight signed an agreement with the Chinese company BGI, which will provide equipment and materials to perform at least ten thousand more PCR tests a day. According to the ministry's announcement, "the devices will be placed in six laboratories of the HMOs over the next two weeks - and will join the labs that already exist in the health system." It was also reported that the total cost of the transaction is NIS 90 million.

Shnir Zeno, CEO of AID GENOMICS World Group, said: "We are delighted to be working with the Ministry of Health and on the trust we have given to carry out this important national mission. Our key goal, with our BGI partners, is to help fight the spread of the Corona virus in Israel."

At the same time, in light of the criticisms voiced, the Ministry of Health decided on a new policy that would examine all residents of the nursing homes where Corona patients were discovered. ABA Chairman (Association of Nursing Homes and Sheltered Housing), Roni Ozeri, was not impressed by the announcement, noting that it came only after Attorney Ilan Bombach petitioned on behalf of the High Court: "Strange that only the Supreme Court of AB A causes the Ministry of Health to announce corona tests in nursing homes and sheltered housing.

We do not want to speculate on how many patients and how many dead people have paid in their lives until the Ministry of Health agreed to accept the ABA requirement, which was heard at the beginning of the crisis about a month ago. The test will be whether the Ministry of Health will actually reach these institutions immediately. "

Another good news came from the Defense Ministry, where it was reported tonight that a plane landed at Ben Gurion Airport with a million surgical masks for use by IDF soldiers. "The New York procurement delegation, which participates in the national procurement of anti-corona virus medical equipment, purchased the masks And flying them to Israel, "the ministry announced.

New York delegation head of the Purchasing and Logistics Division, Limor Kolishevsky added: "We work with a wide range of international suppliers to purchase essential medical equipment for the IDF and the health system. Over the past two weeks, we have purchased and flown tens of thousands of jets, masks, protective suits for medical teams and more. The million masks purchased in China were quickly flown to Israel, with the aim of transferring them to the IDF for the next few days.

Meanwhile, the number of corona victims in Israel has risen to 65. The number of infections is 9,248, of which 117 are respiratory.