Nearly 12,000 new cases of Covid-19 have been registered in Israel in 24 hours, the highest number since the pandemic nearly two years ago, the Israeli Ministry of Health said on Wednesday.
11,978 new cases of Covid-19 were reported within 24 hours. The previous record – 11,344 new cases of Covid-19 – was registered on September 2 last year.
There are currently a total of almost 60,000 people living with Covid-19 in Israel, but only 125 patients have a severe disease, according to data released by the Ministry of Health.
In Israel, nearly 4.3 million of the country’s 9.4 million people have received three doses of Covid-19 vaccine. In recent days, Israel has also started offering a fourth dose of Covid-19 to people over the age of 60 and the medical community.
In Israel, people are mainly vaccinated with the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine.
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday predicted a further increase in the prevalence of Covid-19 and called on people to go vaccinated.
“The wave is indeed taking hold now, and we expect tens of thousands of approved [Covid-19] case, “visiting a hospital in central Israel,” said Bennett.
“The good news is that the vaccine works, so anyone who gets vaccinated and wears the mask properly is unlikely to get serious and it will go away in a few days,” he added.
More than 1.4 million cases of Covid-19 have been reported in Israel since the start of the pandemic, including 8,247 deaths.
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