Health

The Ministry of Health this evening released data showing that 14 days after receiving the second vaccine, the data are even higher than in Pfizer's initial study. Corona vaccines in Israel have been found to be very effective in preventing illness, with an emphasis on serious illness, hospitalization and mortality - this evening (Saturday) increased the effectiveness of the vaccines performed by the Department of Epidemiology in the Ministry of Health. According to the results of the test, which was conducted until the previous weekend, there is an efficiency of 95.8% in preventing all...

32-year-old woman in advanced pregnancy died after being infected with Corona, Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem announced on Sunday morning. The doctors were unable to save the fetus. The woman, in the 30th week of her pregnancy, was hospitalized due to breathing difficulties at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital on Tuesday, and her condition was defined as serious. Tonight her condition deteriorated into a multi-system failure. A team of experts was called to the scene, and began lengthy resuscitation attempts as well as a caesarean section in order to save the fetus, but the attempts failed...

3,084 Israelis have been diagnosed as positive for Corona since midnight. The positive rate out of about 51,500 deciphered tests stands at 6%. Data from the Ministry of Health show that 1,217 corona patients are hospitalized in hospitals across the country, 785 of them in critical condition and 261 respirators. Since the outbreak of the plague, 5,660 corona patients have died in Israel, 11 of them only today. The rate of serious patients among those aged 60 and under continues to decline, due to the vaccination campaign. As of tonight, 56.5% of severe patients are over 60 years old. 19.7%...

Thousands of people celebrated from Saturday afternoon at the flea market in Jaffa - but the police arrived to disperse them only after about three hours. The partygoers, most of them in costumes, crowded the narrow alleys of the market, taking drinks and food they had taken at takeaways. Inside the crowd there were also spontaneous parties with music heard from the businesses, with the partygoers dancing - almost no one kept their distance or put on a mask. Later, the celebrations in the market resumed on another street. The police claimed that police officers from the Jaffa station had...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Education Minister Yoav Galant announced last night (Sunday) that schooling will continue in July, but did not present a clear outline for this. The students are outraged and the student council said: "We have been stuck in the same place for almost a year and the solution in your opinion is to extend this year further? Parents and teachers were left confused, wondering if it was an election announcement, or a decision the system could stand. The guiding principle in the outline that should be formulated by the Ministry of Education and presented...

2,393 corona patients have died in Israel since the beginning of the year - 1,459 of them in January and 934 in February. There are more than 40 deaths every day. It should be emphasized that the data for the month ended yesterday (Sunday) are not final, as late data on deaths are still coming to the Ministry of Health. There is no doubt that the extensive vaccination campaign is the significant factor in the decrease in the number of deaths from corona in Israel. An analysis of data from the Ministry of Health shows that in the first half of last month, an average of 40 patients died...

Handwashing hygiene stations developed by Israel Development have been set up in Bangalore and Podochary districts in India with the aim of guiding and encouraging local residents, children and adults, to wash their hands properly and effectively and contribute to reducing morbidity from infectious diseases. The stations were self-funded by the startup Soapy Care, which set itself a policy of providing washing stations in India and Africa with a tithe of ten sales in Israel and around the world. The project is in collaboration with the Swasti and Sanitation First organizations that promote...

Studies will be resumed in all the orange localities, not only the "border" ones, and the facilities for 11th-12th grade students who have also been vaccinated in red localities will be facilitated. In the shadow of calls for a full opening of the education system and the relatively encouraging morbidity data, the Corona Cabinet approved on Wednesday evening additional relief for students. The new relief means another 200,000 students will return to classrooms and kindergartens. Instead of 1,861,081 students currently studying frontally - following the new traffic light map, 2,069,212...

The declining trend in morbidity continues: The Ministry of Health announced that 2,386 Israelis were diagnosed with corona yesterday, and another 409 received a positive response at midnight. The verified rate of the 84,286 tests sampled yesterday stands at just 2.9%. The coefficient of infection has already dropped to 0.8, a continuum that the Ministry of Health has previously defined as a condition for easing restrictions. As of tonight, 626 patients are hospitalized in critical condition, including 214 respirators. 5,988 people died in the outbreak. According to the Ministry of Health,...

The Ministry of Health will update this morning (Monday) that 1,339 people have been diagnosed with Corona the past day. This increased the number of verified infections in Israel to 819,987. Yesterday, results were obtained for 27,108 tests, with the positive rate for the virus being 2.4%. The coefficient of infection has dropped to 0.76. 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 27,593. The hospitals hospitalize 995 patients, of whom 212 are respirators and 627 are seriously ill....