Corona professor Tsar Salman Zarqa told Reshet Bet radio on Thursday that the announcement of a sixth wave of coronavirus will likely only be made retrospectively. “After five waves, the public knows how to protect themselves against infection,” he said, advising. that “we must not turn everything into regulation”.
“Each user assesses the threat for themselves,” Zarqa added. “If you are a more mature user or have a background illness, then of course I would wear a mask in enclosed spaces. For now, we leave that to discreción. de people.
We have lived for the last two years mandatory or non-mandatory terms, but we want to move to some other habit,” the crown czar said.
The director general of the Ministry of Health, Professor Nachman Ash, said on Thursday that his ministry does not intend lately to require the use of masks in confined spaces, nor a fifth vaccine for at-risk populations.
On Wednesday, the Health Ministry’s epidemiological team advised wearing masks indoors, especially in crowds. They also suggested that at-risk Israelis complete their fourth vaccination and allow children over the age of five to get the booster. Finally: anyone hired through the fitness formula in Israel will have to get at least 2 vaccines plus a booster.
Corona’s existing figures in Israel (we haven’t done so in a while): as of June 9, there are 22,475 active Corona patients; 93 are in serious condition, 29 in critical condition, one with ECMO and 24 with ventilators. To date, another 10,867 people have died from Corona in Israel, and the infection coefficient is quite alarming: 1. 28 (the average is 1 or less).
Two new subvariants of omicron, known as BA. 4 and BA. 5, are spreading from South Africa to the United States, Europe and Israel. Both strains are components of several new subvariants of the omicron variant of COVID-19. According to the CDC, BA. 4 accounts for 5. 4% of COVID cases in the United States and BA. 5 accounts for 7. 6%. They’re even more contagious than previous variants, but wait, there’s more: scientists are starting to detect that mutated BA. 4 and BA. 5 could possibly evade certain acquired immunity and cause reinfections.
Dr. Wesley Long, a pathologist at Houston Methodist in Texas, told NBC’s Channel Five of Chicago that the genetic makeup of one of the first variants, the “delta mutation,” may allow the subvariance BA. 2. 12. 1 “to escape existing pre-immunity contrary to vaccination and past infections, especially if it has become inflamed with the omicron wave.
Will the generation of new variants soon prevent the coronavirus?Judging by the habit of flu viruses, the answer would possibly never be. be the new shares of “blue chips”.
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