Professor Hezi Levy gave a special briefing on the fight against the re-emergence of the virus, and came out against the decision of the Corona Commission earlier • "According to research, 25% of fitness equipment is contaminated"

The director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, tonight gave a special briefing to the media on the efforts to curb the second wave of the corona virus, opposed the opening of gyms, which was approved earlier by the Knesset's Corona committee, and even called on the public not to go there.

"We are on the rise in morbidity and a wave of morbidity that is unfortunately increasing," said Prof. Levy. "Yesterday there were 1,221 new verified and the sea so far 932. The total verified is over 40 thousand already. In terms of age distribution: about 25% 0-18 and about 8% over age 65.

Currently 526 patients are hospitalized in hospitals of which 183 are serious patients. Number of patients The hardships in July have reached 172, more than in all of June. I'm not sure we all understand how much there is an increase and difficult patients that need to be prevented. It is important to say that together we can overcome, live in the shadow of the corona and lower morbidity. .

"I want to say that at the moment the morbidity is increasing. We are also increasing the number of tests. 27-28 thousand tests per day. About 6% positive tests. I am very worried about the increase in the number of patients and I speak to you as a doctor and as such I very much ask people to listen to instructions. Towards each other. "

On the subject of the special projector, one of the rejections of a proposal by Prof. Roni Noma said: "We think there is room to separate regulation from operational implementation and for that we talked to Noma to run the campaign, he is a valuable person who contributes a lot, but we need to understand It is the responsibility of the Ministry of Health to manage the health of the campaign. There is no ego here, there is a way to create the right model to manage things, when with us there is an operator who manages things. We continue to stick to the idea and dialogue with other people.

"There is a logistical, budgetary component, of manpower and also a medical component, things will be managed together by the same commander and all things will be brought to the table. There are professional things that can not be ignored, things that are part that feeds the operation. So it will be and so it will be.

"We try, in the Ministry of Health, in the government, to avoid a general closure, it is clear to us that such a closure carries damage, mental and mental health, people hesitated to get to hospitals due to other diseases and were injured - we try to avoid closure so we try to create restrictions that prevent crowds and infection. Where we are.In other countries, too, once there was an outbreak - there were closures. 

On the gym saga he said: "Gyms are rooms with constant air, there are people who do aerobic activity without masks and emit shards of saliva, sweat people are hosted next to them. Gyms, I speak as a person who used them. Scientists did tests and found bacteria in 25% of them Rules have been set for cleaning, but they do not always do it right, so we came and asked to suspend the use of the rooms for a while.

"We will respect that, but we are trying to control the disease without closure. I regret the Knesset committee's decision not to approve these things, which we believe should be done to prevent disease. We will continue to follow and continue to make proposals, it's part of the same operational UAV we are talking about. On him. My message to the public - going to the gym is a danger of infection. As for the general closure, I repeat, he flattened the curve, but he did many other things. "We do not want to reach a general closure, hence the steps we take, regional closures and the call for mutual guarantee - one can take the path of no disease, everything is fine to go to weddings and clubs of hundreds of people, but it is a wide pad of infection."

On the functioning of the lab, he said: "I would like to point out again that we are conducting 27-29 thousand tests worldwide, from the highest numbers in the world per capita. We are working to improve capabilities. Labs are also manpower and equipment, we are in the process of buying equipment, we are definitely fighting dynamic disease and we think "We learn from the world how to prioritize tests, such as the elderly and nursing staff, people at risk. We prioritize tests according to needs, along with increasing the ability to perform tests 24/7."

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According to an update by the Ministry of Health, as of 4:20 PM, 1,221 new infections have been discovered in the last 24 hours. The number of tests stands at 21,537. Number of deaths -364. The number of respirators stands at 53. The Ministry of Health has issued an amendment to its previous announcement, and now it is reported that the number of infected midnight stands at 719, and not as previously reported.

Meanwhile, for the first time since the State of Israel had to deal with the second wave of Corona virus, the number of active patients, who have been verified as carriers of the virus, has exceeded the number of recovering. The Corona National Information and Knowledge Center has released new data this morning (Monday) on corona morbidity in Israel, updated to midnight on Sunday night, which shows that after 1,135 new patients were added in the last day, the number of active patients now stands at 19,600. Which stands at 19,267.

The data also reported that the number of patients hospitalized in critical condition increased in the last day by 15 patients and now stands at 147 people, an increase of more than 11 percent per day. At the same time, the total number of deaths from the corona virus in Israel is 360, after five people died in the last day. Data from the Ministry of Health show that it increased from 91 serious patients on June 6, to 151 serious patients on July 12.

The report also stated that the average growth rate per day is 3 percent, a decrease of one percent compared to yesterday, and that since the epidemic began, 1,120,592 corona tests have been performed in the State of Israel, with 19,189 tests being performed only yesterday. 

In addition, the report noted the active corona morbidity centers in the last day, which include: Lod, Ramla, Kiryat Malachi, Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Beitar Illit, Kuseife, Bnei Brak, Tel Aviv-Yafo and Kiryat Ata, which first appeared on a multiplication map last night. The cases.

The director general of the Ministry of Health, Professor Hezi Levy, was interviewed this morning by the GLC and said: "We need 27,000 tests and we plan to increase even more. We do not intend in any way to reduce the number of tests, but we will prefer to reach people who need to be tested faster." .

Photo: June Rickner

Meanwhile, in the shadow of the discussions on restoring the restrictions and the criticism surrounding some of them, Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kish referred to the situation in an interview he conducted this morning in "Here." "I tell the Corona Committee, you can ask questions and lift the restrictions, but if you go into closure for another two weeks, the responsibility will be on those who do not let the gatherings stop today.

The deputy health minister also stressed that "we do not have data on how many people got infected where. The reason we closed the pools is that there are gatherings - in the entrance, in the bathroom, in the buffet. The pools have a strong lobby, and they are fighting. The pool in hotels is not. Closed - economic consideration ".