Delta variant: Israel has the highest level of death in six months | The Department of Health reported 750 cases for the third day in a row

Israel reported more than 750 new cases of coronavirus for the third day in a row. In the middle of a regrowth caused by the Delta variant, and after the detection of the Delta Plus- subvariant, the country reached highest death rates in six months and an increase in severe cases.

Israel’s health ministry reported that there were 765 new infections in the past 24 hours, with 756 reported on Wednesday and 761 reported on Tuesday. According to the state agency, Israel now has 5,300 active cases, the highest number since April 5..

The number of critically ill patients was 54 and two new deaths were recorded, bringing the death toll in Israel to 6,443 since the start of the pandemic.

Fourteen people died from the coronavirus last week in Israel, after the country went two weeks without recording a death.

The government reimposed sanitary measures, such as the compulsory use of the chinstrap in confined spaces, but they did not restrict the movement of the population or the commercial activity.

Despite this, Prime Minister Naftalí Bennett warned on Wednesday that Containment may be necessary if current sanitary measures are not followed. “We can defeat the Delta variant without containment if we are diligent and determined,” he said at a press conference.

Bennett again urged people to use the chinstrap – a measure that was re-imposed last month amid rising infections – to get vaccinated and maintain social distancing.

“The simplest thing, as they (the authorities of the previous government) have done several times over the past year and a half, is to shut everything down. We can end up in there, but we’ll try something else. thing… about all of us, ”Bennett said.

Despite the regrowth, The Israeli cabinet decided on Tuesday to ease the restrictions, shortening the quarantine period from 10 to 14 days to just 7 days., and rejected a Health Ministry proposal to reimpose limits on social gatherings.

More than half of the 9 million Israelis are already fully vaccinated and the vast majority of new cases are in people who are not immune.