Delta variant in Israel: epidemic of new cases and third booster dose?

Israel on Monday registered his highest daily number of new coronavirus cases since the start of the last epidemic as the country struggles to contain the spread of the variant Delta.

the Ministry of Health reported that Sunday 343 people tested positive for COVID-19 after they have been done 49,074 tests. The positivity rate was 0.7%.

The ministry added that 68 patients are currently hospitalized due to complications related to coronavirus. From this number, 35 people are in serious condition, as 16 are connected to artificial respirators.

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Health, the 57.1% of patients in severe condition have not been vaccinated against the virus.

During, Sunday 17,610 people were vaccinated with the first dose and 3,054 received the second. So far, 5,645,604 Israelis have received an injection and 5,177,756 both.

The Prime Minister Naphthalene Bennett and the Minister of Health, Nitzan Horowitz, will meet later on Monday to discuss the continued spread of the disease and the possibility of recommend certain audiences to receive a third reminder.

Although at a meeting held on Sunday in the The health ministry did not make the decision to provide a third dose to the population at risk, authorities said they were monitoring the situation. Some doctors treating coronavirus patients in hospitals across the country have urged the ministry to provide the booster vaccines.

A member of the ministry’s pandemic team said he believes most doctors agree with the measure, but noted that not all immunocompromised patients respond to vaccines the same.

(Article originally published in YNet in Spanish. Author: Adir Yanko – Adapted by Leandro Fleischer) .-

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