Israel records less than 1,000 active COVID-19 cases nationwide

The Israeli Ministry of Health confirmed this Sunday morning that they count less than a thousand active cases of coronavirus in the country.

La última vez que la nación ubicada en el Medio Oriente, precisamente en el mar Mediterráneo, registró un number menor de contagiados totales tan bajo fue el 22 de marzo de 2020, cuando 945 personas dieron positivo por el virus, en comparación con las 985 registradas this Sunday. This was the situation at the start of the pandemic, even before major restrictions were put in place. Over the following months, the number of cases increased dramatically and, based on the successful and rapid vaccination campaign, Israel was able to turn the situation around..

Is it around 5.42 million people have already been vaccinated out of a population of 9.3 million, according to figures from the British tracker Our World In Data. Israel is currently one of the leading countries in the world in the fight against COVID-19. By comparison, Belgium, with around 11 million people, has around 106,000 active cases. Austria, with a population of 9 million, has around 17,000 active cases. Norway, with 5 million inhabitants, has 26,000 cases.

At the peak of the second and third waves, in October and January, there were over 70,000 and 80,000 active cases in Israel, respectively. Although the restrictive measures helped reduce the number of infections, the situation was not as promising as it is today.

“Israel is an example of how vaccines beat COVID-19 (so far)He tweeted on Sunday Eran Segal, professor of computational biology at the Weizmann Institute of Sciences. “Since the peak in mid-January, there are 99% fewer cases (now ~ 5 daily cases per million), 98% fewer critically ill patients (now ~ 0.4 per day per million) and 98% fewer deaths (now ~ 0.2 per million) ”.

“Life is back to normal, very few restrictions remainAdded the Israeli researcher.

In the past two weeks, Israel recorded less than 100 new cases per day and the percentage of tests that returned positive remained below 0.3%.. In the past months, thousands of new cases have been identified daily, with a positive rate rising to 10% and above.

Last week 10 people died from SARS-CoV-2 virus in Israel. Only 84 patients remain in serious condition, a figure similar to that of the previous days. But that’s a fraction of the 1,100 or more critically ill patients that were recorded in January and also a fraction of the limitation of 700 to 800 patients that the hospital system was supposed to be able to manage without compromising the quality of care.

Local health officials warn that infected people returning from overseas have been a major concern, especially given frequent cases of people violating quarantine requirements.

This Sunday, the Ministry of Health announced that following a family that returned from abroad and failed to meet mandatory quarantine requirements for those who are not vaccinated, including children, around 24 people have been exposed to a carrier of the coronavirus, generating around seven new infected cases.

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