Israel’s Health Ministry reported 1,130 new coronavirus cases as of Motzei Shabbos in the previous 24 hours, with the number of active patients reaching 10,929, the first time since the start of the pandemic that the number of active patients has been over 10,000.
The number of seriously ill patients has doubled over the past ten days to a total of 84, of whom 32 are ventilated. There are also 74 patients in moderate condition.
Four more deaths were recorded over Shabbos, raising the death toll to 330.
At least 12 residents of a Tel Aviv senior living center were diagnosed with the coronavirus over the weekend. Magen David Adom utilized its new “ambulance-bus” to transport the seniors to a geriatric care center:
מד"א בחזית המאבק בנגיף קורונה:
פעילות מבצעית ראשונה ל'אמבולנס-בוס' של מד"א
אתמול (3.7), נקרא לראשונה אוטובוס הטיפול נמרץ הייחודי של מד"א לפינוי 9 דיירים מבית אבות שאובחנו כחולים בקורונה. כל החולים פונו באמצעות האוטובוס בנסיעה אחת, אל מרכז גריאטרי לטיפול בחולי קורונה במרכז הארץ. pic.twitter.com/idE2yUhjdY— מגן דוד אדום (@mda_israel) July 4, 2020
Since the Knesset approved the resumption of the Shin Bet coronavirus surveillance program on Wednesday, thousands of Israelis have received messages ordering them to enter quarantine, Channel 12 News reported.
An intern at the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee tested positive for the coronavirus on Friday, forcing chairman of the committee, MK Zvi Hauser (Derech Eretz), into quarantine. All meetings of the committee have been canceled for the next week.
About 1,700 medical professionals are currently in quarantine, the Health Ministry reported on Friday.
Border Police commander Maj.-Gen Yaakov Shabtai tested positive for the coronavirus over the weekend. Shabtai attended a memorial service last week, which was also attended by President Reuven Rivlin, IDF Chief of Staff Maj.-Gen Aviv Kochavi, Defense Minister Benny Gantz and other senior officials. An epidemiological investigation is being carried out to determine who needs to enter quarantine.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Figures of “diagnosed cases” can’t be compared between countries or over time, since it depends on the criterion for testing. Antibody tests in several countries strongly suggest that 90% of people with Covid19 don’t get very ill, so wider testing inherently finds more non-sick people who test positive. The figure that matters is number of people hospitalized (i.e. how many of the minority of Covid19 “victims” who actually become seriously ill).
Its only July and yet this appears to be the beginning of the “second wave” or a belated spike in the “first wave”. The semantics really don’t matter. What will happen next fall and winter when the regular flu and CV 19 converge and we won’t yet have much of the population vaccinated (assuming at least one of the current vaccines in trials proves successful. save and effective
It’s only because of increased testing. These people are not sick. They just have antibodies which means they are not sick.
At this point, the only sure thing a positive coronavirus antibody test can demonstrate is an immune response to a coronavirus (and, again, not necessarily COVID-19). The presence of antibodies could mean you’ve built an immunity to SARS-CoV-2 (the virus that causes COVID-19), but experts can’t say for sure because the virus is still so new and research is limited so far.
“We don’t fully understand whether a positive antibody to COVID-19 indicates you’re really immune, or if you could get re-infected if you’re potentially exposed again,” says Dr. Stoneman. “If it does turn out that there’s some immunity, we don’t know if that immunity will last months or years. It’s really too soon to understand what these antibody test results mean. As we go on over the next few months and start to see another wave of infections, we’ll have a better sense of the risk of reinfection.”
Enough fear mongering, YWN. This isn’t even worse than the flu at this point
The Shin Bet system is highly flawed. Many people have received messages to enter quarantine because they have been in contact with a person diagnosed with Corona when they were alone throughout the time specified.