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In addition to the discussion on education: The Corona Cabinet will convene in the evening Israel today

2021-08-22T11:55:15.724Z


Ministers will hold an extended discussion on the virus in the Prime Minister's Office • Bennett at the cabinet meeting: "Instead of closures - we have chosen a broad campaign with many actions to curb the disease"


The Prime Minister announced at noon (Sunday) that the Corona Cabinet will convene for a discussion at 8:30 PM in the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, in addition to the Ministerial Committee's discussion on the education outline planned for today at 6:00 PM. 

Earlier, at a cabinet meeting, Prime Minister Bennett said of the Corona: "We continue to fight the plague with all our might, according to the Israeli government's regular work plan. There were two alternatives before us: the broad hammer strategy, the so-called closures, "We chose the latter option."

According to an update by the Ministry of Health this morning, yesterday 5,312 new carriers were diagnosed out of 99,036,000 new tests, with a positive percentage of 5.44.

The coefficient of infection is 1.2.

Since the outbreak of the corona, 987,459 Israelis have been infected with the virus, of whom 68,885 have been actively verified.

The weekly verified average stands at 7,344, while last week the average was 5,212.

According to the data, 108,345 Israelis are currently in domestic isolation.

At the same time, more and more localities are no longer painted green.

Israel has 57 cities and 60 red localities, 73 cities and 89 orange localities, 42 cities and 252 yellow localities.

1,133 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country.

680 are in critical condition, of whom 104 are respirators.

Yesterday, 8 people died of the virus in Israel, and another three at midnight.

115 people have died from the virus in the past week.

Since the outbreak of the plague in the country, 6,782 corona patients have died.

Despite the difficult data, the Intelligence Division report notes that in recent days signs of curbing the rise in morbidity have been sharpening, thanks to the effect of the third vaccine dose. .

Source: israelhayom

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