Health

The State Comptroller's interim report on the handling of the corona crisis reveals a long list of shortcomings that need treatment. However, it does not touch on the main failure: decision-making in the government and in the Corona Cabinet. Even those who agree with Matanyahu Engelman's view that there is no room for personal criticism of decision-makers will find it difficult to justify the lack of criticism of decision-making processes. In doing so, the comptroller misses an opportunity for a thorough repair, and instead of going up to the government floor, he stays in the field clerks

There is no doubt that returning first- and second-graders to school is much more important. It is not only that the importance to the economy of first and second grade students is greater, because it is more difficult to keep them at home, even with a big brother. It is also the tremendous damage done to first graders in literacy and basic arithmetic. The Minister for Social Equality, Meirav Cohen, asked the cabinet why not switch, that grades 1-2 would be in full capsules and grades 3-4 would study alternately. Education Minister Yoav Galant's unconvincing answer was that there was a...

The Ministerial Committee for the Declaration of a Restricted Area expanded at noon (Friday) the list of localities in the northern region that are closed due to an increase in the morbidity data in Corona. After yesterday it was decided to extend the closure on Majdal Shams until November 10 and to announce restrictions on the locality of Restaurant until November 11, restrictions were also announced on the localities of Buqata and Hatzor HaGlilit. According to the decision, the restrictions in Buqata will begin tomorrow at 08:00 in the morning and will last until next Thursday at 08:00...

About two hours after the resignation of the Deputy Director General of the Ministry of Health, the Deputy Head of Public Health at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, gave a briefing to the media following the opening of street shops - a move she opposed - and the increase in infection in Israel. "To reach the next opening, we will need less than 500 verified corona patients a day - so there is still a long way to go." According to Dr. Elrai Price, "With the exit from the quarantine, the coefficient of infection increases. This is not surprising. We knew this was going to...

The reproduction number R, the way of rating coronavirus or any disease's ability to spread, which is the essential figure for determining the following reliefs, reached 1 Friday for the first time since leaving the quarantine. The last time this level of R was recorded was at the end of September. Data from the Ministry of Health show that the overall R is 1.0. The figure in general society is 0.94, among the ultra-Orthodox - 0.92, while among Arabs it is higher - 1.07. According to the outline of the head of public health services at the Ministry of Health, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, the...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein announced on Friday afternoon in the Kirya in Tel Aviv the completion of the deal with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to supply vaccines against Corona to Israel. The agreement relates to the purchase of eight million portions to be given to four million Israelis - two portions per person. Netanyahu also said that he was working to obtain vaccines for all citizens and noted that he was trying to promote Israel as a global leader. However, he clarified that the vaccines have not yet been approved by the US and Israeli...

The Ministry of Health updated this morning (Wednesday) that 815 people have been diagnosed with Corona in the past day. This increased the number of verified infections in Israel to 325,845. Yesterday, results were obtained for 55,202 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 1.5%. The test data and their results are not final and may change in subsequent updates from the Ministry of Health. The number of active patients is 8,293. The hospitals hospitalize 502 patients, of whom 131 are respirators and 307 are seriously ill. To date, 2,735 people have died from the corona...

In a telephone poll Wednesday, the Corona Cabinet approved an increase in the maximum allowable occupancy of a street store and a store operating in a shopping complex according to the size of the store - so that the number of customers allowed is per person per 7 square meters of store space and no more than 10 people. Will be less than 4 people as approved so far. The Minister of Finance, Israel Katz, welcomed the move and said that "this is an important decision by the Corona Cabinet." He said, "This is a necessary decision in light of the density of queues and the need to facilitate...

In the past week, there has been an increase in the number of new patients and seriously ill patients, for the first time since the closure began a month and a half ago, according to a report published today (Sunday) by the National Information and Knowledge Campaign in Corona. Masks, social alienation and enforcement may increase morbidity, which has been on the rise in the past month and includes hundreds of infections daily. The report also shows that the Central Bureau of Statistics' data for October indicate a high correlation between the excess mortality in recent months, compared...

For the first time since October 21, more than a thousand new infections were diagnosed in Corona yesterday (Wednesday). This is according to data from the Ministry of Health published this morning. More than 60,000 corona tests were performed yesterday and the positive rate is 1.8%. The verified rate without survey tests is 2.2%. 510 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 282 of them in critical condition. 122 patients connected to respirators. The death toll since the outbreak is 2,826. The number of active patients, as defined by the Ministry of Health, also...