The number of corona patients hospitalized in critical condition continues to decline: Stands at 694

The number of corona patients hospitalized in critical condition continues to decline and Saturday their number stands at 694, compared to 741 on Wednesday. However, there has been an alarming increase in the number of serious patients connected to respirators and their number stands at 221 - a record in the fourth wave.
Among the severe patients - 486 are not vaccinated, 134 are vaccinated in two doses and 56 are vaccinated with a booster dose. No data were provided for the other severe patients. The rate of severely unvaccinated patients now stands at 72%. Among severe patients who have not yet reached 60-85% are not vaccinated. At the weekend, 17 corona patients died and the number of deaths since the outbreak of the plague stands at 7,641. Since the beginning of the month, 535 corona patients have died in Israel. Among those who died over the weekend: eight who were not vaccinated at all, nine who were vaccinated with two doses of vaccine. All the deceased are aged 60 and over, except one.
Data from the Ministry of Health show that 6,099 Israelis received the third vaccine today. Since the beginning of the week, about 144,000 Israelis have received the boost. At the same time, 1,508 were vaccinated with the first vaccine dose, and since the beginning of the week, 23,077 Israelis have come to receive the first vaccine dose.
So far this weekend 6,962 have been diagnosed as positive for Corona, 4,932 yesterday and 2,030 today. The rate of positive tests over the weekend is about 4.3%, lower than the numbers in recent days. Yesterday about 118,000 tests were solved and today another 49,000.
There are about 63,000 active patients in Israel. 4,182 of them live in Jerusalem, 1,999 in Tel Aviv, 1,572 in Be'er Sheva, 1,558 in Netanya, 1,504 in Ashdod, 1,477 in Bnei Brak, 1,422 in Petah Tikva, 1,313 in Haifa, 1,056 in Taibeh, 1,054 in Rishon Lezion, 1,043 in Holon and 1,013 in Ashkelon.
Meanwhile, police arrested a Holon resident over the weekend suspected of violating isolation while being defined as a corona. The man was arrested while police arrived to deal with a report of a violent incident and discovered that the suspect was among those involved. He was summoned for questioning at the end of his solitary confinement on suspicion of spreading an illness - and was ordered to return home.
Yesterday, two unvaccinated mothers were reported to be in critical and difficult condition at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital. Due to the rapid deterioration in their condition, the medical staff had to give birth to them in the early weeks - 28 and 27. One of the mothers, 20, is breathing and anesthetized, and the condition of the other mother, 27, is severely defined and she is receiving respiratory assistance.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett convened on Saturday evening the Corona Forum consisting of directors of government ministries to consult on the fight against the virus before taking off for the UN General Assembly convening in New York. Against the background of criticism that the Corona Cabinet has not convened in recent weeks, Bennett said that "government policy is an open Israel in a stubborn and sophisticated war on the plague. Not isolations, closures, more and more restrictions - which is the easiest - but solutions."
Bennett told CEOs that “whoever is here needs to know better than anyone how many actions we do in a day to run better and save lives. There is no one here who wants to save a life and someone who does not. I think about the patients, everyone in the corona ward is just a heartache, but I also think about the economy, the education, the parents who have to work and the children who have to study. " "And it is important for me in light of all the recent publications in the media to say these things in the clearest possible way. Everyone needs to know the spirit of the commander - and the commander in this case is the Israeli government."
He addressed those present and said that he proposes to focus in the near future on the three big things that await: returning to school after the Sukkot holiday, the upgraded green label and the vaccines. "To vaccinate, to vaccinate, to vaccinate. Not to focus on where it is easy," the prime minister said.
The last meeting of the Corona Cabinet convened on August 30 - just before the start of the school year. Since then, Bennett has had professional discussions, but not the Corona Cabinet, which will not convene for a month until he returns to Israel from the UN General Assembly.
On Tuesday, the ministers who are members of the Corona Cabinet rejected the criticism of the government's conduct and the statements against Bennett that he was not interested in accepting the recommendation of the professional bodies to impose a crowd restriction. "There is no point in limiting everyone and paying compensation just because of the unvaccinated," the ministers said. "Ultimately we are in an event of vaccinations. There is no reason to change the policy at the moment. The difficult patients are on a steady trend. What will help sit and limit two and a half appearances while all children in school and people travel abroad indefinitely," they said.