Posted on 08/29/21
| News Source: i24
Health Ministry official Prof Nachman Ash predicts infections will slow with the third booster vaccine
In the last 24 hours 7,071 new cases of coronavirus infection were diagnosed out of 102,935 screening tests carried out, reflecting an infection rate of 7.09%, the Israeli Health Ministry said on Sunday.
Of the 1,175 people hospitalized 726 patients are in serious condition, including 149 who are being placed on artificial ventilators.
The reproduction factor R has been declining since the start of the month, however, and currently stands at 1.11.
Four days before the start of the school year, the Health Ministry's director-general Prof Nachman Ash, said he was in favor of children returning to class on the scheduled date - Wednesday, September 1 - despite the data.
Ash predicted a slowdown in infections, which he says should result directly from the campaign for a third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine, Channel 12 reported on Friday evening.