According to Ministry of Health statistics published shortly after 10 p. m. On Wednesday, 7040 new cases of coronavirus have been reported since midnight, bringing the number of infections from the onset of the pandemic to 245494.
The figure is the highest number of cases shown in a day since last Thursday, after the degrees of verification fell over the weekend and Yom Kippur.
The death toll stood at 1,569, with 22 more since midnight.
Of the 69,418 active cases, the number of other people in serious condition amounted to 834, of which 211 were in the care of fanatics, 256 more were in moderate condition and the rest had mild or no symptoms.
The Ministry of Health reported that 52,282 tests were conducted on Tuesday, of which 13. 5% positive.
As the number of others requiring COVID-19 hospitalization continues to increase, heads of internal medicine at Israeli medical centers have warned that they have difficulty treating other patients without COVID-19.
“Of the 111 [internal medicine] hospital departments, more than 40% have already become coronavirus services,” Avishai Ellis, director of the Internal Medicine Association, said at a press convention through Channel 12 News.
Other medical officials said more fitness was needed to cope with the influx of patients, while others asked for more hospital beds.
“We want to create more stalls and more single beds for other coronavirus patients,” said Dr Guy Hoshen of Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv. “We are losing patients in serious condition according to the criteria of the Ministry of Health who still want oxygen. “”
At a Wednesday assembly of the so-called coronavirus cupboard, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told the Ministry of Health to prepare the fitness formula to treat up to 5,000 critical patients at once, more than six times what is estimated to be the maximum existing capacity of the country’s hospitals.
The figure suggests that there is no transparent sign that the strong buildup in infection rate is slowing or reversing.
The prime minister said he was looking for hospitals to be able to treat up to 1,500 critically ill patients immediately, 3,200 through mid-October and 5,000 through November, according to Channel 12.
While fitness officials have for months cited 800 critically ill patients as the maximum that the fitness formula can administer, hospitals have expanded their coronavirus facilities and trained staff to prepare for the higher numbers. .
Netanyahu also warned ministers Wednesday that the existing blockade of the coronavirus, which has severely limited public life and closed the school formula, as well as many companies, and will restrict the right to protest, can last for months or even up to a year.
The coronavirus cupboard met to discuss the definition of targets and signals for the slow emergence of Israel’s moment of national closure, as well as advances in vaccines and the acquisition and use of immediate COVID-19 testing. The assembly took a position at a time when the fitness scenario was terrible, with thousands of new cases reported every day, crushing hospitals and ever-increasing COVID-19 deaths.
In the leaks of the meeting, Netanyahu cited in the Hebrew media telling the special forum of the relevant ministers dealing with the ongoing epidemic that “our exit strategy [of closure] will be slow this time, and could take a position for six months. “
The government has been criticized for lifting restrictions too temporarily after the initial closure in the spring and for not re-imposing restrictions when infection rates began to rise during the summer.