Health

Israel is the 30th country in the world with more than 100,000 people infected with corona: About six months after the first carrier of the virus was identified in Israel, in February, the Ministry of Health updated the epidemic data in the country, which shows that Israel now has 100,716 people infected. Yesterday, 1,496 new infections were diagnosed in Israel, and at midnight, another 889 infections were diagnosed today. Another 11 patients have died since midnight, and the total number of deaths now stands at 809. There are currently 22,122 active patients in Israel, 390 of whom are in...

Bat Yam Mayor Zvika Brut has announced that entry to the city's beaches will be allowed to Bat Yam residents only for fear of infections in the corona due to overcrowding and congestion. The municipality said in a statement that "due to the high density that has been felt in recent weeks on the city's beaches and in particular on the separate beach, which does not allow for the maintenance of social distance rules, the mayor ordered an organized entry of residents from other cities." The municipality noted that on the separate beach, which serves the ultra-Orthodox public, there are...

At the Alon headquarters in the Home Front Command, efforts are being expanded to curb the corona virus, in light of the recent outbreaks of the Delta strain across the country. "The increase in morbidity is abnormal compared to what we expected," says a senior official at the headquarters, "because it is not just in children." He stressed that the headquarters is conducting "aggressive operations", which include sending epidemiological investigations and sampling to each outbreak point, and even increasing the number of investigators by about 500. However, for now there is no intention to...

The sharp rise in the number of new infections in Corona in Arab and ultra-Orthodox localities continues. This emerges from data published by the Ministry of Health. In Tira, Kfar Qassem and Modi'in Illit, there have been sharp increases in the number of people diagnosed with the virus. However, in other localities there has been an increase in morbidity rates relative to their size. In the village of Kanna, 40 new corona carriers were diagnosed last week, which constitute 13% of all tests in the locality. In Ibelin, where about 13,000 residents live, 14% of all tests in the past week...

The Corona Cabinet approved on Sunday evening the traffic light layout of national projector Prof. Roni Gamzo. According to the outline, each locality will be subject to other restrictions, depending on the level of local morbidity. How do you determine which red city and which only yellow? How does the ranking affect businesses and cultural venues? And how the prayers will be held on Rosh Hashanah, Yom Kippur and Sukkot. As part of the traffic light program, each local authority will be given a score of 0-10 according to the formula that takes into account the following parameters: number...

Corona projector Prof. Roni Gamzo said that the morbidity rate in the red cities in Israel is among the highest in the world. According to Gamzo, "There are not many such cities in the world. I have to protect the residents. What we are doing is not pleasant for the residents but it is also protective. It is a means of reducing morbidity." Gamzo referred to the closure of the education system in the red authorities and said that "we know that all over the world it is difficult to open them with such a large morbidity rate. And in Israel the morbidity rate in green cities is also high. So...

A perishable personal device for identifying the corona of an Israeli entrepreneur last night received an emergency permit from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Visby Medical has announced that it has received approval for the company's personal and disposable PCR device, which is used for rapid detection of COVID-19 disease; The hand-sized device is capable of delivering extremely reliable results in less than 30 minutes. Visby was founded by Adam de la Zerda, who also serves as the company's CEO, a graduate of the Technion in Computer Engineering. It is reported that the first...

The Yom Kippur fast will be marked tonight (Sunday) in the shadow of the general closure imposed by the government in favor of preventing the spread of the corona virus. About 7,000 police officers will take part in the closure enforcement operation during Yom Kippur. Most enforcement in localities where a Jewish majority is expected to focus on city centers and local gatherings on intercity roads. At the same time, the police are expected to deploy roadblocks at entrances and exits from cities and towns. Apart from that, the essential services will be provided only in the cities of...

The number of tests performed on Yom Kippur was, as expected, very low, but the data when it came out are far from encouraging: on Monday evening, the number of corona patients with a severe condition rose to a record 772 patients, and the number of respirators peaked at 209 in total. 1,507 corona patients died from the outbreak, 562 of them (37% of all deaths) - in September alone. The rate of infections in corona tests has risen gradually in recent days and in the last two days has reached more than 14%. That means one in seven tests is positive. A Ynet survey shows that in four cities...

The Ministry of Finance, the Histadrut and the presidents of employers and businesses in Israel have reached agreements on how to pay for the days of isolation. According to the agreement, the isolation days have been reduced from the employee's sick days quota and the payment for the days will be as provided by law. The employee will bear the cost of the first two days and the state and employers will share the cost of the remaining days, so that at the end of the day the total cost will be divided between the employee, the state and the employer. In order to complete the agreement...