Against the background of the concern of Prime Minister Netanyahu and Health Minister Edelstein over the morbidity data, the limited forum will make decisions • Corona Commissioner Prof. Gamzo will participate

The limited Corona cabinet is expected to convene this afternoon (Wednesday) for a crucial meeting. At the center of the meeting, the special plan of the special commissioner for the fight against Corona, Prof. Roni Gamzo, to reduce the number of people infected, is to be presented. Gamzo was asked by Prime Minister Netanyahu on Tuesday to present the plan. 

Edelstein: "There will be no more closure this weekend" // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon

Also, as part of the program, or without it, ministers are expected to make a decision on a full resumption of business activities on weekends. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said yesterday during a visit to Wolfson Hospital in Holon that there is an urgent need to reduce the infection, but there is no health justification for stopping business on Saturday. 

"We will not be able to live long in these numbers," Edelstein said. "Even if there is no further increase, we must lower the curve. We will try very hard to put uniform criteria into the limits. One thing is clear: if there is no full closure on weekends, On weekends.

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Prime Minister Netanyahu said yesterday during a visit to the Home Front Command's "War Room": "The level of morbidity is high, we must reduce it, and we will reduce it with joint efforts. "There are targets here and there are excellent people here. Both the commanders and the reservists and reservists. A great effort, an impressive effort, a good effort."

Netanyahu added: "I finished a tour with the Defense Minister in the Home Front Command. I was deeply impressed by an industrial plant located here to cut off the contagion chain. There are great efforts here, full coordination with the Ministry of Health and of course with the national corona project Prof. Gamzo. In coordination, and trying to produce something that in my opinion does not exist in the world - this is the ability to amputate at a very high level, on a very large scale. "

A stable trend in the number of respirators

The Ministry of Health updated this morning that in the last day 1,692 new infections have been diagnosed. The total number of tests in the last 24 hours is 24,672. The rate of positive subjects is about 7 percent, a slight decrease compared to the figure of the previous day, which was about 8 percent. 

The hospitals hospitalize 750 patients, of whom 99 are respirators, 341 in serious condition and 146 in moderate condition. The trend in the number of difficult and respiratory patients remained relatively stable. 

In terms of the occupancy of the corona wards in the hospitals, the situation is that in the Hadassah, Sourasky (Ichilov), Sheba, Shaare Zedek and Shamir Medical Center (Assaf Harofeh) hospitals, there is about 100 percent or more occupancy of patients. 

4,000 agricultural students

Meanwhile, the number of foreigners who are expected to enter Israel in the coming months is greater than the number that was known so far and stands at 21,000 people. "Israel Today" has learned that 4,000 trainees in agriculture will arrive in Israel during August under the leadership of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The trainees will stay in the country for a year, work and study in the field of agriculture, and at the end of the year will return to their countries. 

Establishment of the headquarters to assist in amputating the infection chains // Photo: IDF Spokesman

The trainees are expected to arrive in Israel from 30 countries around the world. In order to completely avoid the danger of the virus spreading in the country, the trainees will be in complete isolation from the moment they arrive in the country. They will board their own buses and be taken to field schools, and other boarding schools, from which they will not leave for two weeks.