The Heavy Price of the Fourth Wave: Data on the Deceased | Israel today

Data on the segmentation of the deceased show that the fourth wave was a wave defined as "non-Haredi Jew", since most of them - 69% - belonged to this population.

About one-fifth (19.7%) of the deceased are Arabs (similar to their share of the general population), and only 11% of them were ultra-Orthodox.

It should be noted that the relative share of the ultra-Orthodox among the deceased has decreased compared to previous waves.

In all, to date, 7,853 corona patients have died.

Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon

Between April and October this year, 1,699 corona patients died in Israel, and September was the most difficult month in the current wave, with 661 deaths.

In August, 631 people died.

Yesterday it was revealed that the death toll in Israel also counts 24 dead from the Palestinian Authority.

The Ministry of Health estimated that this was due to the fact that they died in hospitals in Israel, including three from Bethlehem, two from Gaza, two from Al-Azaria, as well as those who died from Deir al-Balah, Madhayasha, Hebron, Jericho, Ramallah and more.

Segmentation of the deceased in the fourth wave, Photo: Gideon Markovich

Only 2.6% positive

More encouraging data and further backing for morbidity came last night from the daily corona data released by the Ministry of Health.

By 5:21 p.m., 1,678 new carriers had been identified in Israel, which is 2.6% positive out of 69,141 new tests.

489 hospitalized in critical condition - the lowest figure since August 13.

197 of them are connected to soul machines.

The positive rate - only 2.6%.

Yesterday, the third vaccine received 51,268 people, the second vaccine received 6,671 people, and the first vaccine received 10,346 people.

In total, by last night we vaccinated 3.6 million Israelis in the third dose, and 6.2 million in the first dose.

Today (Wednesday) the Corona cabinet ministers will vote in a telephone poll on a series of further easing following the decline in corona morbidity.

Among other things, entry will probably be approved for those who do not have the green label, restaurants in the open air will be able to operate according to the purple label (occupancy restriction), as well as for swimming pools.

Also, attractions in enclosed spaces will operate under a green label, and open-air attractions will be able to operate without a purple or green label.