Almost 40% of active covid cases in Israel refer to the under 12 age group.
This can be seen from data from the Ministry of Health according to which 2,574 of the 6,505 Israelis currently ill are children. Since yesterday, the vaccination of minors between 5 and 11 years has begun, which in Israel are about one million and 200 thousand: a significant group of the population.
Meanwhile, the cases (and the R factor above 1) are slightly up compared to the past few days: yesterday the positives were 603 out of 82,309 tests with a rate of 0.74%. There are 124 serious cases.
Chaired by Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, the so-called Coronavirus Cabinet met.
In anticipation of the upcoming Hannukkà festival (from Sunday 28 for a week) it was decided to extend the current restrictions for enclosed spaces.
As explained by Professor Eran Segal of the Weizmann Institute, the cause of the small increase in cases is due to the 670,000 Israelis not vaccinated at all, the million people who have only 2 doses and children under 12.
The administration of the third dose in Israel began last July: to date, more than 4 million have had the booster.
