According to data from the Ministry of Health published today (Wednesday), it appears that at 16:30 almost 17,000 patients were identified - a number that is expected to jump until midnight.
Yesterday, 43,815 new verified viruses were identified which are 12.1% positive out of 362,336 tests conducted.
In the shadow of the spike in morbidity, there is also an increase in the number of dead, with 27 people dying in the past week.
That is - within a week the mortality rate doubled yesterday Five patients died from the virus, with the average mortality standing at three people per day.
The total number of deaths in Israel is 8,290.
The number of active carriers in the country is 231,494 Israelis.
The number of severe patients has soared more than 250 percent in the past week, with 257 patients in critical condition hospitalized in hospitals, 64 of them respirators, 12 connected to an Acme device.
The coefficient of infection in Israel is currently 2.02.
Corona testing complex in Safed // Photo: David Cohen-Ginny,
The number of isolated staff in hospitals now stands at 5,657 people, of whom 767 are doctors and 1504 are nurses.
This is a very large number of medical personnel, while the pressure on the health system is increasing.
The education system has nearly 100,000 isolated students, including 73,550 active patients.
156,393 thousand people from the general population are in isolation.
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