Health

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...

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...

2,809 people were diagnosed yesterday with corona. Data from the Ministry of Health published this morning (Friday) show that the rate of tests that returned positive from about 79,000 tests is 3.6%. Out of 416,231 tests, the positive rate in the last week stands at 3.38%. In the last seven days, an average of 2,241 patients have been diagnosed per day - and Israel is approaching the 2,500 mark set as a condition for "tight restraint." Across the country, 419 patients are hospitalized in critical condition, of whom 105 are respirators. The outbreak of the plague killed 3,050 people in...