This is what the director general of the Ministry of Health instructed hospital administrators to say: "In the next week and a half, another 200-300 more seriously ill patients are expected"
Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy
Photography:
Oren Ben Hakon
The Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Hezi Levy, today (Sunday) instructed the hospitals to prepare for the cessation of elective activities (non-urgent surgeries, activities of outpatient clinics, etc.) in light of the increase in morbidity in Corona.
"Elective activity will be done only in accordance with the capabilities of the hospitals in light of the opening of more corona wards and the need for a skilled staff including anesthetists to treat complex patients," the CEO said in a letter to hospital directors in the country.
Prof. Levy added that the hospitals will open a new corona ward whenever the occupancy rate rises above 80%.
"We are expected to end the next ten days with the addition of 200-300 critically ill / respiratory / critical patients. The expected morbidity load must be dealt with. "With personal responsibility, determination, and mutual guarantee, as you have been doing since the beginning of the crisis. I am confident that, as we knew how to deal with emergencies in the past, we will succeed together this time as well," wrote Prof. Levy.
Meanwhile, at 16:00, the corona projector, Prof. Nachman Ash, is expected to hold a press briefing prior to entering the closure.
The closure, which will take effect today at 5 p.m., will include traffic restrictions and commercial, recreational and leisure activities.
It will last two weeks and is expected to be extended by another two weeks, unless there is a decrease in the daily verified number of at least one thousand people and a decrease in the coefficient of infection, which will be less than 1.
About 6,000 police officers and more than 300 checkpoints will be deployed in order to enforce the closure restrictions.
On intercity roads, 21 checkpoints will be set up in random places to divert traffic, but from 18:00 daily until midnight, more than 300 permanent checkpoints will be set up on roads throughout the country.
The regulations restrict traffic to a distance of one kilometer from home, with a few exceptions: going out to get vaccinated, medical or social care, demonstration, legal proceedings, going out for sports activities, transferring a minor between his separated parents, going out to a work place or educational setting, , At a wedding or alliance (subject to the crowd limit).
Each such violation will result in a fine of NIS 500.
Accommodation units and B & Bs, a zoo, safari, nature reserves, national parks, national sites and memorial sites will also be closed;
A place to provide non-medical treatment, including a hairdresser and a place to provide beauty and cosmetic treatments, a place to provide complementary medicine treatment, a drive to watch movies, a mall or a retail market and a museum.
In addition, the possibility of self-collection from places selling food will be eliminated.
The early childhood frameworks, grades 1-4 and grades 11-12 will operate as usual, while grades 5-10 will be distance learning.
Prohibitions include open-air activities, trips, practical studies or vocational training for adults, and activities of youth movements.
In addition, there will continue to be activities for special education students and dropout and at-risk youth, as well as boarding schools, studies in immigrant classes and access to an institution of education or vocational training for adults for online learning from it for students in need.
The head of the struggle in Corona, Professor Nachman Ash, was interviewed on Arie Golan's This Morning Program here on Monday, and said that the infection rate in recent days was about 1.6: "We assume that the closure will lower it to a lower number, around 0.8-0.7, The number of verified numbers has dropped every day. "
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said that 280,000 people were vaccinated in the first week of the corona vaccination campaign, about 71,000 of them did so last weekend: "We continue to vaccinate for you, we continue to protect Israel."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night referred to the vaccination campaign against the corona, and said that the new goal is to provide 150,000 vaccines a day.
"Once within 30 days we can get out of the corona, open up the economy and do things that no country can do. Then there will be another 4.5 million rations and another 4.5 million rations, but that's the critical step," he said. And we can get it. "
As of yesterday: 2,630 people have been found positive for Corona
The Ministry of Health published this morning the latest corona morbidity data, which shows that 64,662 tests were performed yesterday, of which 2,630 were found to be positive.
The rate of positive results stands at 4.1%.
The Ministry of Health also stated that there are 35,525 active patients in Israel, 1,054 of whom 160 are in critical condition and 584 others are in critical condition.
In addition, 133 patients were resuscitated and 178 patients were in moderate condition.
To date, 3,210 people have died from the virus in Israel.
The number of staff members in solitary confinement stands at 2,861, of whom 411 are physicians and 768 brothers and sisters.
Since midnight, 9,941 tests have been performed to detect the virus, 426 of which have turned out to be positive - so that the rate of positive tests as of 05:30 is 4.3%.
According to an update by the Ministry of Health, Israel is in second place in the world in the number of vaccines per capita (after Bahrain).
However, the rate of verifications for the virus has been rising for the past two weeks - a figure that indicates a significant increase in the spread of the disease.
The current coefficient of infection is 1.27.
about
