358 patients have died from the virus since the beginning of the month • If the trend continues, October is expected to break the September highs - which was the deadliest month so far with 644 victims • The death toll from the onset of the epidemic is approaching 2,000
Morbidity figures for the first quarter of October are worrying, and if the trend does not improve later this month - it is expected to break additional records, such as almost doubling the number of deaths from September, which broke a record 644 deaths per month.
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Since the beginning of the month, 358 people have died from the corona virus.
If this trend continues in the remaining 20 days of October, there will be a death of about 1,100 patients a month, compared to 644 each September - which was the deadliest month since the plague began.
In the first ten days of the month, 3 days have already been counted in which the daily death toll exceeded 40, which did not happen at all in September.
As for the index that was often marked as critical, the number of serious patients, in the first ten waters of October it stood at 1,269.
If this trend continues, then in this index, October is also expected to overtake September, in which 2,857 critically ill patients were counted throughout the month, some of whom recovered and some of whom died.
The death toll from the plague now stands at 1,956 people, after 9 more people died last night at midnight.
Today (Sunday) 107 carriers were identified in 1,366 tests, with the deduction of double tests, the percentage of carriers is 8.5 percent.
Yesterday (Saturday) the percentage of carriers was 7.3 percent, and the total number of carriers identified was 888 out of 13,404 tests performed.
The total number of patients in Israel today is 62,192.
Since the beginning of the epidemic, there have been 290,079 people in Israel.
The number of hospitalized patients currently stands at 1,577 people, of whom 850 are in critical condition, 233 are respirated and 306 are in moderate condition.