Posted on 12/18/21
| News Source: i24
Epidemiologists warn that Israel is already in the midst of the fifth wave of the pandemic
Israel on Saturday recorded over 800 new virus cases for the second day in a row, according to an update to the Health Ministry's website.
Out of some 92 thousand Israelis that got tested for the virus on Friday, 873 tests returned positive, a rate of 0.95 percent.
As of Saturday evening, there were 6,680 cases of the virus in Israel. including some 120 patients hospitalized with serious symptoms.
Some epidemiologists say that Israel is already in the midst of the fifth wave of the coronavirus pandemic.
Since the start of the pandemic, 5.8 million Israelis received two vaccine doses, and over 4 million got a booster shot.
The death toll since the start of the pandemic was at 8,232.