Nearing 2,000 new cases, Israel sees record daily rise in virus infections

Health Ministry reports record-high 31,313 active cases of COVID-19 with 259 patients in serious condition, including 82 patients on ventilators; fatalities at 430 as 3 more Israelis succumb to COVID-19

Ynet|07.22.20 | 08:35

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In the past 24 hours, 1,977 people have tested positive for coronavirus, Israel's highest daily tally of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic, the Health Ministry reported Wednesday morning.
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Earlier in July, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said in a closed meeting that if Israel reaches 2,000 confirmed coronavirus cases a day, authorities may have to resort to a general lockdown in order to contain the virus' spread.
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Drive-thru coronavirus testing station in Ramat Hasharon 
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Since the beginning of the week, 4,857 new patients have been diagnosed with coronavirus in Israel, and 21,661 patients in the previous 14 days - 1,547 new patients every day on average. For comparison, 17,075 patients were diagnosed in March, April and May combined.
The number of active coronavirus patients in the country also stands at a record-high 31,313, among them, 259 patients in serious condition and 82 patients are on ventilators.
Three Israelis have succumbed overnight to complications of COVID-19, the illness caused by coronavirus, bringing Israel's virus-related fatalities to 430.
Health authorities conducted 29,079 coronavirus tests on Tuesday, 7.78% of which returned positive.
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Coronavirus testing lab in Tel Aviv 
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The country's major virus hotspots in the past 7 days were Jerusalem with 1,794 new confirmed cases, followed by Bnei Brak and Beitar-Illit with 962 and 487 news cases, respectively.
Rounding up the list are Tel Aviv with 467 new cases, Beit Shemesh with 414, Petah Tikva with 344, Ashdod with 343, Haifa with 320, Lod with 262 and Modi'in-Illit with 244. 

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Government handling of covid situation

What the past few months have really show is that when faced with a challenge where the country and its leaders are on equal footing with the challenge (in this case virus versus for example surrounding hostile groups) that it fails completely. What this confirms for me is Israel can easily deal with challenges or hostile groups that are not on the same footing. Recall however that during recent wars Gaza for example there were many poorly executed decision that ending up with military deaths of soldiers on the fronts. It is easy to kill a fly on a table by smacking it with a book and look good doing it..ie swagger, talk, ego etc. What we are really seeing that Israelis are not necessarily as smart as they have us believe them to be. Ego and arrogance need to be replaced by common sense and science in dealing with the virus and taken out of the hands of the politicians who only real agenda is to make decisions that allow them to remain in power.

Ron Kornfeld| 07.22.20

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Solution looking for a problem.

07.22.20

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High tec israel become high drek israel

How is it possible after 12 or more years of netanyahus rule,the so called high tec country is not able to supply the correct data to government and health care sector. How is possible that no real data about unemployed,jobseekers,etc are avaible? And the so called bureacracy is unable to identify and distribute money. High tec israel or high drek israel mr.prime minister. Its your watch.thank you for everything..

Tomer| 07.22.20

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