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Guided by Edelstein: Isolation shortened to ten days, subject to two negative corona tests | Israel today

2020-12-13T18:16:11.795Z


| health The Ministry of Health announced that the shortening of the isolation period will begin this coming Tuesday at 8:00 • The first test will be performed upon entering the isolation, and the second on the ninth day from the date of exposure • It was also stated that the minimum gap between the first test and the second test will be at least 24 hours Health Minister Yuli Edelstein is visiting the Ma


The Ministry of Health announced that the shortening of the isolation period will begin this coming Tuesday at 8:00 • The first test will be performed upon entering the isolation, and the second on the ninth day from the date of exposure • It was also stated that the minimum gap between the first test and the second test will be at least 24 hours

  • Health Minister Yuli Edelstein is visiting the Maccabi Health Fund's corona vaccine complex today

    Photography: 

    Amos Ben Gershon, GPO

The Ministry of Health announced today (Sunday) that under the direction of Minister Yuli Edelstein, and in light of the recommendation of the professionals, starting this coming Tuesday at 8:00, the isolation period will be shortened to 10 days subject to two negative tests for Corona virus.

The first with the entry into isolation and the second on the ninth day from the date of exposure.

It was also noted that the minimum gap between the first test and the second test will be at least 24 hours.

Last week, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, addressed a media briefing, saying that this is not a simple decision: "If we release on the 12th or 10th day people who have been exposed to verified patients without tests, The disease.

We determined that if two tests are performed, the last of which is the third on the tenth day, the chance of infection is small. "

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This morning, the Ministry of Health published the updated morbidity data for Saturday, which show that 1,288 people were diagnosed as positive for the corona virus, out of 44,810 test results obtained.

The data indicate that there was a slight increase in the rate of positive tests during Saturday and it stood at 2.9%.

As of this morning, there are 17,339 people in Israel who are defined as active blues according to the Ministry of Health, and 641 of them are hospitalized.

Of those hospitalized, 321 patients are defined as critically ill and have 128 respirators.

Since the outbreak of the plague in Israel, 2,983 people have died.

Source: israelhayom

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