After it was announced that the Health Ministry will require closures in dozens of cities, the AMN report and the Ministry of Health report disturbing data and high positive testing rate • The number of people infected in Kafr Qasem rose from 4 to 58 in the past week • In Dimona: from 11 to 93
A new record of contagion per day in Corona in Israel was recorded yesterday (Tuesday) - 773. According to data from the Information and Knowledge Center of the Israel Defense Forces and the Ministry of Health released this morning. The number of tests yesterday was 18,824. The full report
Health Minister Edelstein: "We are at the beginning of the second wave of morbidity" // Photo: Gil Kramer
The positive test rate is 4 percent, with the last 10 days ranging from 2.5% to 4%. The figures are published in light of the demand that the Ministry of Health impose a closure on dozens of "red cities". In those cities, data is particularly high in recent days.
In Kafr Qasem, the number of patients in the past week rose from 4 to 58 - an especially high doubling rate of 14.75. Another city that may be closed is Dimona, where the number of patients in the past week has risen from 11 to 93 - a doubling rate of 8.45.
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Also in Ashdod, where morbidity data is rising alarmingly, the number of patients in the past week has risen from 134 to 417 - a doubling rate of 3.28. In Beit She'an, the number of patients rose from 8 to 39 in the past week - a doubling rate of 4.88. In Nahariya, the number of patients in the past week rose from 9 to 41, ie a doubling rate of 4.89.