For the first time in months: less than 2,000 corona patients in Israel Israel today

According to data from the Ministry of Health, yesterday 113 carriers were diagnosed out of about 45,000 tests • The rate of positives - only 0.2% • 161 patients in critical condition, of whom 99 are respirated

The Ministry of Health this evening (Thursday) published a picture of the spread of the corona virus in Israel.

According to the data yesterday, 113 carriers were identified, which is 0.2 percent of 45,322 new tests.

Today, 44 carriers have been identified, so far 0.3 percent of 13,073 new tests.

Director General of the Ministry of Health: "The vaccine may be less effective for the Indian variant" // Photo: GPO

The number of patients hospitalized stands at 256 people with 161 in critical condition.

The number of respirators stands at 99 people, and 103 patients in critical condition.

Currently, the coefficient of infection - 0.75.

Since the outbreak of the plague, 837,668 people have been diagnosed in Corona, with only 1,954 people now infected with the virus.

Yesterday one patient died, which raised the death toll to 6,346 people, while today no Corona patient died.

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health today issued a travel warning and recommended avoiding "unnecessary travel abroad", especially to seven countries: Ukraine, Ethiopia, Brazil, South Africa, India, Mexico and Turkey. The population said in a statement that "in view of the high morbidity rates in the world and the presence of alarming variants, the Ministry of Health recommends that the general public not leave Israel's borders at this time."

According to the Ministry of Health, the travel warning represents both the current situation in the countries in question and the morbidity trend in them.

This is based on a number of criteria: the declaration of the countries, the extent of the morbidity of those entering Israel from them, the percentage of those vaccinated and recovering from the verified, evidence of the existence of variants and more.