Health

The corona cabinet approved to immediately shorten the duration of isolation to one week, subject to two negative corona tests. This is instead of two weeks of isolation without testing or ten days subject to negative testing. Those who improve the insulation are expected to be fined NIS 5,000. The cabinet is now discussing further restrictions, including a "softened" green label that would require people who are not vaccinated or recovering to present a negative corona test at the entrance to enclosed spaces where there are more than 100 people. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said after...

Data from the Ministry of Health show that yesterday (Monday) 1,372 people were diagnosed with the corona virus, and the positive rate - 1.8% - was the highest in four months. Against the background of the aliyah, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett summoned senior members of the health system to a meeting to be held in the afternoon. Among the guests: executives at the health funds and hospitals. On behalf of the Ministry of Health, the director general will be Prof. Nachman Ash. It should be noted that not all hospital directors or health funds were invited to the meeting. There has been a...

Data released by the Ministry of Health shows that yesterday 1,430 people were diagnosed as positive for Corona. Of the approximately 87,000 corona tests conducted yesterday - 1.66% were interpreted as positive. From midnight on Friday until the end of Shabbat, another 670 Corona carriers were diagnosed in Israel. Over the weekend there was an increase in the number of critically ill patients, and it now stands at 89, of which 18 are connected to respirators. Prof. Eran Segal, component of the Weizmann Institute's corona prediction model, who revealed some of the morbidity data as early as...

Friday morning, President Yitzhak Herzog and his wife Michal received the third vaccine against Corona virus. "This is a very important step for the sake of social solidarity in the State of Israel," said President Herzog at the opening of the campaign to receive the complementary dose at Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer. "We are launching, we are launching a vaccination campaign to protect the adults in the State of Israel," said Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who accompanied the Herzog couple. "From today there is a new mitzvah - Hassan your father and mother for the sake of prolonging...

The increase in the number of corona patients in a difficult situation continues: data from the Ministry of Health show that 201 critically ill patients are hospitalized tonight (Saturday) in hospitals across the country, compared with 168 in the update before Shabbat. This is the highest number of serious patients since mid-April. There has also been an increase in the number of respirators and their number now stands at 31. Data from the Ministry of Health show that yesterday 2,435 positive for the virus were diagnosed in Israel and today another 1,589 were diagnosed. That means over the...

A huge fire broke out today (Tuesday) in the Jerusalem area, near the village of Shoresh and Road No. 1 (Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Road). Suspected arson. Following the fire, Shoresh's first line of houses, on Harimon Street, was evacuated - as was the gas station complex and the nearby commercial center. Later, residents of the first line of houses in the locality of Shoeva, on Hahoresh Street, were also evacuated to an absorption center in Kiryat Anavim. In addition, in both localities, electricity was cut off, in order to avoid the danger of electric shock

The Corona Cabinet decided on Tuesday evening to impose further restrictions on the public in view of the increase in Corona morbidity, including the expansion of the green label outline. The public will be required to wear masks even in open spaces during gatherings. The list of countries from which returnees will be required to enter isolation has been expanded, even if we have been vaccinated before leaving for them. Most of the decisions will take effect next Sunday, August 8th. During the discussion, some of the ministers raised the possibility that another closure would be imposed on...

The warnings of the Corona Cabinet, the Ministry of Health and Prime Minister Naftali Bennett against a fourth closure, perhaps during the Tishrei holidays, lead to an attack by senior health officials who warn: A closure is not a solution. This move, they say, has failed in the past, and will fail this time as well. The Ministry of Health and its senior officials, they claim, do not take into account all the considerations, and manage the crisis through a particularly narrow prism. In the Corona Cabinet yesterday, the experts who attended the meeting said that in order to avoid reaching...

6,275 Israelis were diagnosed as positive for Corona - more than a third of them from the education system - and this is the highest number of verified since February 8. The peak since the beginning of the plague was 10,117, on January 18th. Today, at midnight, 2,942 verified were diagnosed. Excluding surveys and tests for recoverers, the positive rate yesterday was 4.84% - the highest figure since March 6. The peak of the outbreak is 15%, on September 29 last year. Today, at midnight, the rate of positives is slightly higher - 4.89%. A total of 130,000 tests were performed yesterday, the...