Posted on 02/05/21
| News Source: i24
Israel has registered 675,618 virus cases since the beginning of the pandemic
Israel's death toll from the coronavirus exceeded the 5,000 mark on Friday, as hours earlier the government extended the general lockdown until Sunday evening, amid harsh disagreements on the course of action in the longer term.
As of Friday morning, the death toll was at 5,019, after 46 patients died overnight.
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The Health Ministry reported Friday morning 7,168 new coronavirus cases out of some 81,000 tests conducted in the past 24 hours, putting Israel's contagion rate at 8.8%. Read more at i24