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349 corona patients are hospitalized in serious condition and the number of respirators is 97. Data released by the Ministry of Health on Tuesday morning show that 1,801 new corona patients were diagnosed yesterday and by midnight 270 new infections were diagnosed, including a 22-day-old baby diagnosed at Poria Hospital in Tiberias. Yesterday, results of 22,396 tests were obtained. The death toll from the plague stands at 554 people - a jump of eight from yesterday. From Poria Hospital it was reported that in the morning a 22-day-old baby was hospitalized with a temperature of 38 degrees....

The Corona Cabinet has decided to lift restrictions on business activities on weekends and stays in public playgrounds. These decisions are subject to government approval, and a vote will be taken during the day. It was also decided to increase involvement in the orange and red cities, and it was decided to promote an outline for the opening of the skies on August 16. The focus of the discussion was a confrontation between the prime minister's approach, which pushed for a closure call, For that. The forum convened yesterday to discuss the possibility of new concessions or restrictions on...

The Ministry of Health updated that 10,052 people were diagnosed with the Corona virus last week. The figure is 14.95% lower than the week before, when 11,820 people were diagnosed. 1,674 were diagnosed in the past day, bringing the number of infected patients in Israel to 80,431. Yesterday, results were obtained for 28,382 tests, with the percentage of positive for the virus being 6.1%. 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 24,577. 776 patients are hospitalized in the hospitals, of...

Significant increase in the number of respirators: According to data from the Ministry of Health, the number of corona patients in hospitals increased by 12 in half a day and reached 118, the most since the end of April, at the height of the first wave. The peak number of respirators was on April 13, when 137 corona patients who were connected to respirators were hospitalized in hospitals across the country. This is a sharp jump in the number of respirators in recent weeks. According to the data on July 1 there were 24 respirators, on August 1 the number jumped to 94 and this morning it...

The Medical Federation announced on Sunday evening a labor dispute that will apply to the entire public health system in Israel. The dispute was declared as a result of the non-allocation of standards required to meet the workload during the Corona period and due to the Finance Ministry's decision to impose on hospitals part of the funding of additional standards, which is expected to deepen existing deficits and require layoffs. Finance Minister Israel Katz and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein will hold a meeting tomorrow with representatives of the Medical Federation in order to regulate...

1,386 people infected with corona were identified on Friday. This is according to data from the Ministry of Health. This is a rate of about 7% of the total tests (about 20.7 thousand). So far, a total of 674 people have died in Israel since the outbreak of the plague. The hospitals hospitalize 387 patients in critical condition, of whom 116 are respirators. The death toll from the plague in Israel has risen by eight since midnight to 665, the Ministry of Health updates. 783 people are hospitalized: 375 in critical condition, including 108 respirators, and 158 in moderate condition. 931...

The Corona Cabinet meeting, which will take place on Thursday, will begin with a review and recommendations by Chief of Staff for National Security Meir Ben Shabbat. At night, the headquarters formulated its final recommendations for the cabinet meeting, but it seems that it is going to be the most significant marker of closure and restrictions. "The question is mainly how we are going to close and in what way, not when," a source at National Security headquarters said tonight. "We are debating how breathtaking it will be and what the specific restrictions will be that will be imposed,"...

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...