Fifth Corona Wave: A record of more than two months in the number of verified patients

The Ministry of Health updated this morning that 1,306 have been diagnosed as positive for Corona in the last day, and the verified rate is 1.27%.

130 people are hospitalized, 81 of them in critical condition.

The number of respirators is 41. 8,232 people have died from the outbreak of the plague in Israel - three of them in the last week

Meirav Cohen

21/12/2021

Tuesday, 21 December 2021, 08:57 Updated: 09:14

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Bennett: "The fifth wave has begun, the goal - to vaccinate the children as soon as possible" (Photo: GPO, Editing: Lear Spiegler)

1,306 people have been diagnosed positive for the corona virus in Israel in the last day, the Ministry of Health announced today (Tuesday).

This is a peak of more than two and a half months.

Of the 104,334 people surveyed yesterday, the verified rate is 1.27%.

The coefficient of adhesion (R) is 1.28.

In all, 5,943 blue people were diagnosed with corona last week.

As of this morning, 130 people are hospitalized, 81 of them in critical condition.

The number of respirators is 41. Since the outbreak of the plague in Israel, 8,232 people have died after being infected in Corona - three of them last week.

Corona Laboratory of Clalit Health Fund, last month (Photo: Reuven Castro)

Last night (Monday), Prime Minister Naftali Bennett and senior officials of the Ministry of Health discussed the imposition of new restrictions in the shadow of the spread of the Omicron variant. Although no decisions were made at the end of the hearing, there was broad agreement to apply further restrictions in the outline to be presented tomorrow. The restrictions that they agreed to expand on later are to reduce gatherings at events and cultural events, to expand the green label, and to stop funding antigen tests for children.

The discussion with the Prime Minister ended after four hours, at the end of which the new restrictions were not approved due to the Ministry of Finance's disagreement with the demand for compensation. According to a statement issued by the Prime Minister's Office, further consultations will be held today in order to formulate the continuation of the action plan for the treatment of the new variant.

During the hearing, the Ministry of Health proposed limiting gatherings to 100 people indoors and 300 people in the open air, in places that operate on a high-risk green label with food and no marked places.

In places in the open air with marked places, the ministry advised to limit the gathering to 1,000 people.

In places that operate without a green sign, a gathering of 20 people in a closed space and 50 in an open space will be allowed.

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Another option we discussed is the expansion of the green mark for trade as well.

A standard green mark will be applied to all stores with an area larger than 150 meters and in stores with an area smaller than 150 meters, the purple mark will be applied.

There is also talk of tightening a green classroom outline, according to which only the vaccinated will be taught in school, and not the vaccinated will learn from home.

Meanwhile, Prof. Nachman Ash informed the hospital directors of high morbidity rates from previous waves following the variant.

In addition, he sharpened the isolation guidelines for medical staff.

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