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Most omicron cases are still related to infection abroad. Loads at the Ben Gurion Airport testing complex, recently
The Ministry of Health updated today (Friday) that from midnight until the beginning of Shabbat 475 positives were diagnosed for Corona. A total of about 45,000 tests were deciphered and the infinite positive rate stands at 1.05%. This is the highest positive rate since October 22nd.
Earlier it was reported that today another 45 verified for the Omicron strain have been diagnosed. A total of 134 verified species in Israel, 86 of which came from South Africa, England, France, the United States, the United Arab Emirates, Hungary, Italy, Namibia, Tanzania, Germany, Morocco, Spain, Serbia, Belgium, and Turkey. 28 others came in contact with returnees. From South Africa, England, USA and France. The rest of the cases, about 15% of the verified strains, are not known to be related to infection abroad.
It was also reported that 92 of those 134 verified (68.7%) are considered “protected” – that is, vaccinated in the third dose, vaccinated in two doses in the last few months or recovered in the last six months. The Ministry of Health noted that there is a high suspicion of another 307 cases – including 186 who returned from abroad and 33 people who came in contact with returnees from abroad.
Head of Public Health on the infection on flights
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Since the beginning of the week, 4,080 positives have been diagnosed in Corona in Israel, compared to 4,294 last week, including Friday and Saturday. By midnight the number of verified this week is likely to exceed that of last week.
The number of seriously ill patients stands at 79. According to data from the Ministry of Health, 78.5% of them are not vaccinated at all. Among severe patients, who have not yet turned 60, it turns out that 88.6% of them are not vaccinated at all.
There are about 6,500 active patients in Israel, the vast majority of them in a very mild condition. 1,521 of them live in Jerusalem, 248 in Tel Aviv, where there was a 111% jump in the number of verified this week, in Be’er Sheva 194 verified, in Petah Tikva 160, in Rishon Lezion 148, in Bnei Brak 145, in Beit Shemesh 134 in Haifa 123 and in Beitar Illit 100.
The Ministry of Health did not publish data on vaccines today, but yesterday 8,114 Israelis were vaccinated against corona for the first time, most of them aged 5 to 11. This is the highest number of vaccinators this month in the first dose. In total, over 99,000 Israelis received the first vaccine this month.
At the same time, 6,302 Israelis received the third vaccine dose yesterday, this is the highest number of vaccinated daily in the highest booster dose since November 4. In total, more than 62,000 Israelis received the third dose of the vaccine this month.
(Photo: Shmulik Dudpur)
At midnight (Thursday-Friday), in accordance with the directives of the government and the Ministry of Health, Britain and Denmark became red countries according to Israel’s definition due to this outbreak of omicoron in them. These have joined most of the African countries already on the list and will be joined early next week by Ireland, Norway, Spain, Finland, France, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates.
The significance of the decision – from now until the red countries are removed from the list, Israelis will not be able to fly to them. Those who return from them, even if they stayed there before turning red, will have to go into one-week isolation, with the type of isolation varying between vaccinated for the third time who will have to stay in full home isolation for seven days, and without vaccinated for a third. Spring.
Vaccinated or recovering passengers arriving from these countries will be required to sign the contract and will be able to stay in solitary confinement at home, those who do not sign will be required to be insulated in a motel and will be driven by the Home Front Command. Unvaccinated passengers will be transported to a motel in isolation until negative test results. In any case, release from a hotel for home insulation is conditional on the signing of the agreement.
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Purple mark in malls – instead of a green mark. Bennett
(Photo: Ido Erez, Mark Israel Salem)
A purple character, it will be recalled, limits the number of people in any compound according to its size, so the term “tightened” probably means that occupancy will be reduced relative to that made possible by purple outlines previously imposed on the malls. A “tightened” purple mark in the malls will probably require a count of the number of people inside the mall at any given moment, i.e. check who enters it and who exits.
Another option is to aggravate with restaurants operating inside the malls, which are subject to the green label – but some do not enforce the requirement that customers display the label that can be vaccinated, recovered and have a negative corona test result, as restaurants in open areas do.
The apparent “folding” comes after Bennett insisted on a green label during all the discussions yesterday. The Ministry of Economy vehemently opposed, arguing that this would severely hurt businesses. In these discussions, the government tried to formulate an agreed outline for the corona restrictions in the malls, in light of the penetration of the Omicron strain into Israel, but fierce quarrels broke out between the ministry officials and quite a few objections were raised behind the scenes.
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