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Corona's isolation has only recently been shortened from ten days to seven, and is now expected to be further shortened: Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz on Sunday evening ordered his office staff to shorten Corona's isolation shortening from seven to five days, but Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has not yet formulated his position. However, there are growing assessments in the health system that the move will eventually be approved, and final discussions on the issue are expected to take place tomorrow and the day after.

Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz decided to shorten the isolation to five days with the encouragement of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett. Following the announcement of the shortening of the isolation to five days, some members of the epidemic treatment team of the Ministry of Health sharply criticized the decision. The reason: Contrary to the decision to shorten the isolation to seven days discussed by the team after data was presented and a vote was taken, Minister Horowitz and senior officials of his ministry including Director General of the Ministry of Health Prof. Nachman Ash and Head of...

The United States warned on Tuesday against traveling to Israel following the spread of the corona there. According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Israel is at the 4th highest level of risk from Corona - and Americans should avoid traveling to it. Along with Israel, 21 other countries were added to the list. The CDC stressed that the recommendation is sweeping for the vaccinated as well - but if it is an important trip, it is better to fly when vaccinated against the virus. The prevailing assessment in Israel is that the coefficient of infection is expected to...

The labor market is expected to immediately face a fundamental change, whereby thousands of workers will be able to get to their jobs even if they have been infected with the corona virus. This is on the condition that their illness is without symptoms and that they will not meet on their way to the workplace and the factory where they are employed by any other worker while they are there. The innovation, which mainly concerns workers in industry, may in fact eliminate the need for many workers in isolation and help workplaces overcome the absence in recent days of many workers, including...

According to data from the Ministry of Health from this morning (Monday), in recent days 527,233 Israelis have been diagnosed as positive for Corona and have not yet recovered. 187,867 people are in solitary confinement, many of them students - before changing guidelines. Since the outbreak of the plague, 8,447 patients have died in Israel from the complications of the virus - 11 of them yesterday. On Saturday, 20 corona patients died - the highest daily number in the fifth wave. Since the beginning of the month, 196 corona patients have died in Israel. In the last day, 67,198 positive...

In the last two weeks, there has been a dramatic increase in the number of deaths as a result of corona complications and the number of patients in critical condition. According to the Ministry of Health, in recent days there have been about 40 deaths from corona every day. These data are not updated on the Ministry of Health website, and these are only updated retrospectively - after death certificates are received and confirmation that the main cause of death is corona and not other diseases. By comparison, at the height of the third wave in January last year, the death toll reached 60

Snow fell tonight in the northern and central mountains and in Jerusalem. The capital was painted white and the access roads to it - one, four-four-three and the tunnel road - were blocked. There will be no studies in Jerusalem today. At several points in the east of the city and in Beit Safafa, stones were thrown at the leveling vessels. The light rail and police vehicles were also stoned. Police arrested twenty-two suspects. Due to the storm, no studies will be held today in Mevaseret Zion, the northern Golan Heights, Safed, Kiryat Arba and the Gush Etzion Regional Council

1,256,077 Israelis were diagnosed from the beginning of the month until yesterday afternoon (Thursday) as positive for Corona. This is according to data from the Ministry of Health. This is the highest monthly number of verified people since the outbreak of the plague and in fact 47.5% of all verified people - since the first Israeli received a positive answer in the corona test - were diagnosed this month. Data from the Ministry of Health show that from Sunday to Thursday at noon, 405,667 Israelis were diagnosed as positive for Corona. For comparison, in January and February 2021 - the...

The night between Sunday and Monday almost completely reduced the validity of the "green mark" that Israeli citizens were asked to display at the entrance to public and closed places, thus removing another significant part of the restrictions that accompanied the Corona period in general and the Omicron wave in particular. The decision was made by the Corona Cabinet in parallel with the gradual decrease in the number of infections and the coefficient of infection, which has fallen below 1 in recent days. In its decision to abolish the green label, the government was assisted by the backing...

The number of corona patients in critical condition has decreased slightly and stands at 1,254. In the morning a record was set when 1,263 positive for Corona were hospitalized in critical condition, and as of the evening hours 288 of the critically ill patients are connected to respirators. Data from the Ministry of Health show that at midnight 30,924 positive for Corona were diagnosed. This brings the number of verified persons from the beginning of the year to 1,805,109. This is an average of almost 49,000 positives a day. On Sunday, another 16 corona patients died and the number of...