Three senior officials from Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s inner circle tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday, the prime minister said in a statement.
National security adviser Eyal Hulata, prime minister’s special adviser Gili Haushner and prime minister’s spokesman Roy Konkol all have the virus.
All 3 are remote lately and have been doing so since their test, the PMO said.
Stone the virus itself in January.
Israel appears to have surpassed the peak of its sixth wave of COVID, which is less severe than its predecessors in light of the ultra-infectious but less fatal Omicron variant and widespread immunity brought through past vaccines and infections.
Health Ministry figures released Wednesday that 5,459 new patients inflamed with the virus had been diagnosed a day earlier.
According to the data, there were 372 patients in serious condition, and of the 23,014 viral tests conducted on Tuesday, 23. 72% were successful.
The transmission rate, the so-called R number, 0. 8, indicates that the epidemic is decreasing. The figure measures the number of other people each coronavirus carrier infects on average, and any reading above 1 means the spread of COVID-19 is increasing.
Since the beginning of the pandemic, another 11,336 people have died in Israel from COVID-19.
As the sixth wave of infections appears to be receding in Israel, coronavirus czar Salman Zarka, who is spearheading the national reaction to the pandemic, warned earlier this month that a new seventh wave is likely to be this fall.
The time is expected to be around the Nov. 1 election, but he said “we are in talks with the Central Election Commission to make sure all citizens are going to vote. “
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