Posted on 06/13/22
| News Source: i24
Health Ministry recommends indoor mask-wearing for first time since mandate dropped in April
Israel's Health Ministry on Monday registered 5,817 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours.
There are currently 28,316 active patients including 100 people in serious condition and 22 requiring artificial ventilation, according to the ministry's Covid-19 database.
The positivity rate for screening tests is 26.3 percent and the virus reproduction rate R has exceeded 1.5.
A total of 10,882 people have died from the virus since March 2020 at the start of the pandemic.
Over the last week, Israel has recorded some 33,000 new coronavirus cases — a 105 percent increase over the previous week.
While the reason for the spike in cases in Israel has not been confirmed, it is likely due to the spread of new omicron subvariant BA.5, which represents 80 percent of new cases in Portugal — another country that has seen a recent rise in cases.