over 5,000 COVID cases in one day and deaths triple

Israel, one of the most advanced countries in the coronavirus vaccination campaign, It has once again exceeded 5,000 daily cases and affected 50 deaths in the past 24 hours.

In front of this situation it is expected that, in the coming days, Reach the million cumulative cases, while technical failures today made it difficult to carry out massive anti-Covid checks on minors in order to resume face-to-face lessons.

Coronavirus infections skyrocket in Israel after July 8 and 9, the health ministry celebrated that there were no new cases. Since then, the epidemiological curve has marked a sudden increase in infections, which reached over 7,000 cases yesterday.

The coronavirus situation in Israel of the Delta variant

Although the numbers reported today by the Israel Health portfolio are slightly lower than yesterday, with 5,380 cases COVID over the past 24 hours, continue to be high for the country’s curve, with 669 severe cases, out of a total of 65,780 active cases, and 107 cases require mechanical respiration.

There were also 48 deaths due to illness in the last 24 hours, which also implies a noticeable increase, after 16 yesterday then last July 27 no deaths will be reported, the newspaper reported Time of Israel.

These statistics are more alert if we take into account that it is one of the most advanced nations in terms of vaccination., with 60% of the population having both doses while 12% already have an additional third injection to avoid complications derived from COVID.

The Delta variant in Israel and the re-entry

Despite the advanced spread of infections, due to the spread of the Delta variant of the virus, the government has set up centers that offer serological tests for coronavirus antibodies and Covid-19 rapid tests for antigens for children aged 3 to 12 in more than 400 locations across the country.

As part of the back-to-school plan on September 1, more than one million students will be tested and, if the results show that the students have antibodies, they will be rewarded a green pass and they will be exempt from quarantine if anyone in your class is positive, the education ministry reported, as quoted by the news agency AFP.

However, this campaign has already suffered delays due to “a problem with the communication system of the company Cell com (telephone), which facilitates the rapid Covid screening system, ”according to the national emergency and medical service Magen David Adom, and difficulties have been reported for young children to undergo blood tests.

About 41% of children aged 12 to 15 have already received a dose of the vaccine, like 79% of young people aged 16 to 19, according to the Russian news agency Sputnik.

In total, since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, Israel has passed 990,000 infections and recorded 6,830 deaths from complications related to COVID.

With agency information