Loads in testing complexes across the country: “It’s crazy”
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Dozens of patients came to the small Hadassah Medical Center in the Kiryat Yuval neighborhood of Jerusalem this morning for PCR tests. Just yesterday, 860 infected people were tested in the compound in 8 hours. Some of the subjects were in contact with a verified patient, some returned from abroad, but what they all had in common was a sense of confusion.
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The testing complex in Rishon Lezion
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Waiting in vehicles for inspection
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“Everything is very confusing,” Rochel Cohen told Ynet, who came with her parents who immigrated to Israel from the United States this week to perform tests. “My parents had to be in isolation for a week because they immigrated to Israel. We wait a quarter of an hour but in life it was not like this turn. If they did not have me at all they had no idea. We hope not to be isolated. ”
Leah, came back from the US last Friday and waited about a quarter of an hour this morning for a check up. “I’m finishing isolation because I was abroad. I know when I landed a week ago I had to come today to shorten isolation because the US turned red. But everything is confusing. If I get a negative answer, I come out of isolation, if I understood correctly. That’s why I came. ”
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Loads and pushes at the entrance to the testing complex in Petah Tikva
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The models try to keep up: “It’s tough”
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Shai from Jerusalem was exposed to a verified patient and also came to the testing complex to perform a test, in the hope that it would be negative. “I was exposed to a verified guy a few days ago. Hope for the best. There is a serious wave. The amount of people is not terrible here, but feel there is a serious wave. I was a bit complacent in retrospect. I do not yet know what the consequences are and I have not read statistics.”
Ali has been performing the tests at the small Hadassah compound in Jerusalem since the beginning of the epidemic. Just yesterday, Ali says, more than 800 people were examined in the compound. “There is an increase we have never seen. More work. We work 8 hours in the compound and there is a check every 40 seconds, it is crazy. There is no rest. It is tough. There have been two calm months but now there is a strong increase. We try to do everything and help people. Faster”.
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“Just not normal.” The queue for the testing complex near the Moshava Stadium in Petah Tikva
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Corona test in Afula. The children enjoy, the parents less
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Yusra Sa’iada, the veteran nurse at Clalit Health Services ‘Omar Clinic in Afula, has already broken 580 patients’ test days a day in the previous wave, she accepts the burden calmly and calmly, and now stands at 380 tests a day. Few clients came to the Omar Clinic yesterday for tests, and waited exemplary at the entrance to the testing complex, which was set up in the backyard of the clinic. At the testing complex, three nurses waited to perform tests, and each insured was given a turn and entered the test in turn.
Segev Yehuda, 12, from the city, said he came for a test after being verified in his class and all the students were asked to take a test. Leon Khyav, also 12, said with a smile that he was at home, waiting for a negative answer and meanwhile enjoying playing on the PlayStation.
Dr. Gita Sani, the clinic’s director, said they are working hard to encourage policyholders to get vaccinated, adding that in recent days there has been a consistent increase in the number of patients.
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Shearim Community Center on Shulamit Street in Petah Tikva is considered a relatively small PCR testing complex of the Clalit and MDA HMOs. There are larger and busier complexes in the city, but it is evident that even on a relatively small place, the queues are not missed. At the entrance, just to sign up for the test, there is a long line of parents and children. Parents were required in the middle of the day to remove their children from kindergartens and classrooms that were closed following exposure to a verified patient.
Ron Asraf, a mother of three who came with her house, said: “My daughter in one of the kindergartens had an outside operator who came and was found to be verified in Corona and now we are all here for tests. As much as it is fun and good for the children, we need to stop, so that we do not have tests or isolation every few days. ”
Meirav also came with her little son to be tested. “Maybe 15-10 kindergartens in the area were closed, because of a music teacher who passed between the kindergartens and is verified to Corona,” she said. On the long line behind her, Meirav said: “It’s crazy, and it’s not just here, it’s everywhere. It’s just not normal what’s going on here. You can see everyone’s nerves here. I’m terribly frustrated right now. What’s going on here is unbelievable. We have a lot of gardens in the neighborhood, I just do not know what to do. ”
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Ministry of Health officials at a press conference
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Shay, who arrived with his daughter, said he was called to take the girl for fear of being exposed to a corona patient. “The eldest son was also at home because in his circle he was ill,” he noted. “I did not believe that after so long since we started with it we would get back to the point where we are at home closed with the kids. It’s work days, it’s the learning sequence of the kids, their friends. I thought it was behind us but the main thing was health.”
Since the beginning of the week, 15,295 Israelis have been diagnosed as positive for Corona, compared with about 20,000 in the first 25 days of December. The number of hospitalized patients has increased slightly and stands at 153, but the number of serious patients has decreased and now in the hospitals 92 corona patients are hospitalized in critical condition. The data show that over 80% of severe patients are not vaccinated at all.
26 of the critically ill patients are under the age of 50, one of them a child. None of these serious patients are vaccinated. The age group 50 to 59 has 18 critically ill patients – 15 unvaccinated, two vaccinated without validity and one vaccinated.
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