Health

The new corona projector, Prof. Nachman Ash, said tonight (Thursday) that one must prepare for at least another year of dealing with the plague. In a first briefing on the plague situation since taking office he added that "a third closure is definitely on the agenda". The briefing takes place against the background of the increase in the number of people diagnosed in recent days, which stood at more than a thousand yesterday. However, the positive rate remained below 2% and stood at 1.8% yesterday. "I and all the leaders of the struggle in Corona, see the heavy prices you pay and the...

The Ministry of Health announced hat 1,227 people have been diagnosed with Corona in the past day - a record of a month and a half of infections per day. This increased the number of verified infections in Israel to 357,207 people. Yesterday, results were obtained for 57,428 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 2.1%. The test data and their results are not final and may change in subsequent updates from the Ministry of Health. "Unfortunately, I expect that in the next week or two we will see the numbers go up, because we are in the adhesion coefficient R above 1,"...

Between March-October this year, 2,586 more Israelis died than in these months in 2019. That means this year there are 9% more deceased. This is according to data from the Central Bureau of Statistics, which is published at noon (Thursday). The CBS said that the difference compared to 2019 is mainly in the months of August to October, when 2,207 corona patients died in Israel - 960 of them in October alone. The CBS added that the total mortality rate from the end of March - when the first deaths in Israel were recorded from the corona - until the end of October was 10.4% higher than the...

Good news for Enlivex, which is traded on the stock exchange at a value of NIS 394 million. The company achieved positive intermediate results in a Phase 2 clinical trial in corona patients in a difficult and critical condition, which they treated using the drug Allocerta. Of the eight corona patients who were recruited for the trial, six in critical condition and two in critical condition, seven fully recovered and were discharged from the hospital after less than five days on average from the date of treatment. The eighth patient who was recruited in a critical condition for drug...

In a discussion held on Thursday between representatives of the HMOs and the Ministry of Health on the subject of corona vaccines, the representatives of the HMOs were surprised to discover that vaccine doses are expected to arrive in Israel in a much larger amount than initially expected. According to the information received by the HMOs, the vaccines in the first delivery will arrive in two beats and in each beat two million vaccine doses will be received. The shipment may arrive in Israel as early as the end of December or the beginning of January. Following the vaccination campaign...

The first shipment of corona vaccines landed on Wednesday in Israel. With the arrival of the shipment, which includes between 3,000 and 4,000 vaccines created by the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein spoke at Ben-Gurion Airport. Netanyahu has stated that he will be the first Israeli citizen to be vaccinated, to serve as an example to the public. "I have served as Israeli prime minister for quite a few years, and this is one of the most exciting moments," Netanyahu said. "This is a holiday for Israel." "It is not obvious...

The Ministry of Health has issued an import permit for the rapid test kit for the detection of the corona virus by the global medical technology giant Ketone Dickinson (BD) for immediate use in Israel. The test, dubbed Veritor, was approved by the regulatory authorities in the United States and Europe several months ago. The kit works on the basis of identifying proteins from the envelope of the virus (antigens), and allows a result to be obtained within about 15 minutes. It is simple to operate, and will be approved for use in laboratories. In the future, home operation may be possible...

The number of students in Corona increased by 480% in December. According to the Ministry of Health, 80,000 adults, mostly parents, have been infected with children since March. The concern: Without the tightening of the closure, even the lower classes will be "corona incubators." "Out of 20 interrogations I received today, 12 were children (60%). There were several other adults who were infected from their children, who were infected in schools. This is the case almost every day these days," he wrote this week on Facebook in the Ministry of Health's epidemiological investigations. "The...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein arrived at the Clalit Health Fund's vaccination complex in the city of Umm al - Fahm on Friday, where the millionth vaccine against the corona virus was carried out. "This is great excitement," Netanyahu said after city resident Muhammad Jabarin received the vaccine. "We are breaking all records, we have brought millions of vaccines to Israel." Netanyahu added: "We have preceded the whole world and now we are ahead of them with our excellent health funds. We are moving forward with tremendous speed to vaccinate the entire...

The Knesset's Constitution Committee, chaired by MK Yaakov Asher, convened on Monday to discuss the "Green Passport" initiative for recovering people from Corona and those vaccinated against it, which could allow citizens holding it free access to sites now closed to all due to the spread of the epidemic. The presentation of the Ministry of Health presented to the Knesset members suggests the areas for which the "green passport" will be valid. According to the plan, the passport may allow entry to cultural events, sporting events, conferences, events and museums, and possibly also to...