Damping of the fourth wave: The
Ministry of Health published tonight (Sunday) the picture of the spread of the corona virus in Israel as of 5:26 p.m.
According to the data, 266 new carriers have been identified in Israel so far, which is 0.81 percent out of 35,009 new tests.
Yesterday, 194 new carriers were identified in Israel, which is 0.68 percent out of 30,113 new tests.
The number of active carriers in Israel stands at 6,025 and the number of critically ill patients stands at 167 people with 107 respirators.
This is the lowest number since July 30th.
The number of deaths from the virus in the country stands at 8,122 people when two people died today.
Corona vaccines for teenagers in Ashkelon // Photo: Yaniv Zohar
The coefficient of adhesion is 0.87.
This is a slight increase of 0.01 compared to yesterday and a continued increase of the last week and a half, but it is still a very low coefficient and a decrease in the number of patients overall.
The number of boosters in the booster dose now stands at 3,987,671 people and the current immunization rate stands at about 4,000 booster dose recipients on average per day in the last seven days.
It seems that this week the 4 million vaccine line will be crossed in the booster dose.
The number of people infected with the virus since the outbreak is 1,333,949.
Corona vaccination facility in Tel Aviv, Photo: Yehoshua Yosef
Meanwhile, after the American pharmaceutical company Pfizer stunned the world when it announced the development of a drug to treat coronary heart disease, Israel Today has learned that the Ministry of Health intends to contact Pfizer in the coming days for information and data on the drug.
It was also noted that the Ministry of Health has previously received data on the previous research stages of the new drug.
However, it is important to note that Israel is not on the list of 90 countries interested in purchasing the drug that have already applied to Pfizer.