Israel’s Health Ministry confirmed 7,761 new coronavirus cases in the previous 24 hours on Tuesday morning, with tests showing a positivity rate of 8.8%, raising the total number of virus cases since the start of the pandemic to 700,479.
There are currently 1,088 virus patients hospitalized in serious condition, with 306 ventilated. The death toll has risen to 5,192.
The number of children diagnosed with the coronavirus has risen by 400%, according to a Kan News report on Monday. The high infection rate in children and teens is of great concern to health officials, who fear that reopening the educational system will have dire consequences. Health officials told ministers that reopening schools could spur a rapid coronavirus outbreak among children and teens.
“We’re concerned about opening schools in orange and red zones with high morbidity,” said Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, the head of the Health Ministry’s Public Health division. “There were outbreaks in schools prior to the lockdown. One child would get ill and dozens more would follow. We don’t want to leave the children at home, but the risk in high-infection areas is significant.”
Currently, all of Israel’s large cities, where almost 80% of schoolchildren reside, are currently “red zones,” with only 8.5% of students living in green zones and 12.1% living in yellow zones.
Government ministers on Monday night voted to extend the closure of the educational system until Thursday morning, with ministers expected to meet again on Tuesday evening to establish an outline for opening schools in the safest way possible.
A tentative outline for students living in red zones to return to their classrooms every other day and studying only outside in the open air was met with great resistance by educational officials and parents.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This headline is absurdly misleading, the article says there is a 400% rise in CASES not morbidity rate which refers to deaths
I stand corrected, morbidity does in fact refer to disease rate while mortality refers to deaths
The article said children testing positive has increased 400%. It doesn’t discuss deaths. It also doesn’t state how many children became ill from Covid19. It is just throwing random numbers to try to scare people, without giving meaningful data.
False headline: nowhere in the article does it mention even 1 death of a child. It just says that there was a 400% increase in cases amongst children. They can even be asymptomatic but that doesn’t matter let’s use the data to increase fear…
The headline is aboit morbidity? The article sais its 400% rise in cases
Children are not getting “ill”! They are getting “positive tests”. Stop this!
This headline is fake news, the article says 400% increase in children being DIAGNOSED with corona – not morbidity rate chas v’shalom…. shame on you YWN news for -1 not being careful in writing the news, 2 or stooping to the low levels of other goyisheh news outlets that put out fake news to scare the public…
They want to vaccinate the kids next, hence the numbers to increase panic
As has been pointed out, this is not a misleading headline. Also, many, many children are not merely being diagnosed, but are actually getting sick. B”h, most – but not all – are not getting VERY sick, but they are exhibiting symptoms, unlike the orignal strain.
The solution is so simple:- Have their extended summer break in winter when it is too cold to hold classes outdoors; then during spring & summer & fall, hold their Fall & Winter & Spring classes outdoors.
“Extended sumer break” here in Israel is three weeks long for all Chadarim