(ANSA) - TEL AVIV, MARCH 18 - Three months after the start of the mass vaccination campaign, Israel continues to record a high rate of disease indices.
In the last 24 hours, the positive rate with 1,496 cases dropped 1.6% and the number of active cases also decreased to 24,003.
Factor R - which measures how many others a positive infection can infect - is now 0.68.
From the peak of the third wave last January and the start of vaccination, according to data from Eran Segal, a computational biologist at the 'Weizmann Institute of Science' in Rehovot, Israel has recorded 91% fewer deaths, 86% fewer. and 73% fewer than the serious ones in the over 60 population
To date, the first dose of the vaccine has been taken by 55.4% of the population: well over half of the residents.
But even the plateaus of those who had the second immunization is now close to half of the people: 47.4%.
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