Officials at Jerusalem’s Herzog Medical Center closed the hospital's COVID-19 ward, Israel’s last one in operation, on Sunday.
The ward’s closure means future COVID patients will be treated in regular hospital wards.
Herzog’s COVID ward opened in August 2020, treating 2,000 patients. It was Israel’s only COVID ward to operate continuously from the time it opened.
“We are closing the department with a sense of joy and pride. There is a feeling of real joy that the corona event, with its severe consequences – is behind us. Now, at the end of the tremendous work and crazy effort of the team – it is allowed to be wrapped in pride,” said Herzog director Dr. Kobi Haviv.
(TPS)