Corona infection rises: 138 Israelis were infected yesterday - Binyamina is defined a red city

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by Ifi Reporter Category:Government Jun 24, 2021

Binyamina is defined today as a red city according to the traffic light plan for the fight against Corona, due to the surge in morbidity in its territory. The definitions in the program have no practical significance since the removal of the restrictions in recent weeks, but they reflect high data on the number of patients in the city, the rate of positive tests and a change in the number verified in the last week. There have been no red settlements in Israel since March 30. Intelligence is defined as yellow today, and the rest of the cities in the country are green.
Meanwhile, the upward trend in corona morbidity continues. Yesterday, 138 people were diagnosed with the virus. The rate of positive tests - three tenths of a percent. The number of seriously ill patients has risen to 26, of whom 18 are respirators. Yesterday, one person died from its coronation, and since the beginning of the epidemic, 6429 people have died from the virus in Israel.

Last Tuesday, there were 105 active patients in Binyamina, reflecting about 65 patients per thousand residents, and in Modiin 60 active patients, about five patients per thousand residents. The outbreaks have been attributed to returnees from abroad, and have spread to schools where most students have not been vaccinated.
The trend of increasing morbidity continued yesterday, and the director general of the Ministry of Health, Hezi Levy, said this morning that during the day, 148 new verified people were diagnosed with the virus - 0.3% of the tests performed. The day before, 130 verified were diagnosed. “An alarming statistic.” He added that about half of the verified people showed mild symptoms of the disease (without reference to the overlap between them).
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said this week that the rise in morbidity is being treated as a "new outbreak" of the plague, and yesterday the Corona Cabinet was re-established. Corona's head of the struggle, Nachman Ash, said yesterday that "we still do not know for sure if this is something local or if it is the beginning of a wider spread. I still cannot say that we are in control of this outbreak."
Bennett announced that if the morbidity continues to rise and maintain a rate of more than a hundred new verified people daily for a week, the obligation to wear masks indoors will be restored which was abolished last week. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health recommended doing so now. Prime Minister and Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz has decided to step up efforts to encourage vaccination for 12- to 15-year-olds. So far, the Ministry of Health's position has been that "this age group can be vaccinated," and now it is "recommended to vaccinate."
Restrictions that have already been returned include the obligation to wear masks in medical institutions and Ben Gurion Airport; the obligation to isolate vaccinated people who have been exposed to patients, in some cases; ; And postponing the opening of the borders to tourists from green countries for a month, to August 1st. Levy said this week that returning the masks in open spaces is not discussed.
This morning, the chairman of the local government center, Haim Bibbs, the mayor of Modi'in, said that in a conversation with Bennett and Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, it was agreed that the local authorities would have extensive powers to fight the virus. The transfer of powers to the authorities became widespread in the second wave of the virus, last summer, and they became autonomous in treating the plague.
The increase in morbidity is attributed to a strain of the virus known as the "Delta variant", which originated in India and has meanwhile spread to more than 80 countries. This strain is considered more contagious, and the effectiveness of Pfizer's vaccine is slightly lower compared to that of the other known strains.

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