More than 47% of the infections detected since the start of the pandemic were registered this January.
Israel today recorded another consecutive decline in daily infections, still high, and is confident that it has passed the peak of infections from the omicron wave, although it expects an increase in serious cases in the coming days.
More than 47% of the infections detected since the start of the pandemic were registered this January and currently 483,228 people have covid-19, according to official data from the Ministry of Health.
Health confirmed 57,563 infections today, although it estimates that the real cases are double, but below the maximum registered this week, which would mark a trend.
“If this trend continues, the peak of infection was on January 25. However, the chances of getting infected are still very high at the moment and we need to be careful,” Maariv Eran Segal, a professor at the Weizmann Institute of Science and a government adviser on the pandemic response, told the newspaper.
Hospitalizations continue to rise, to 946 today, and experts believe that serious cases will peak in the coming days, most among unvaccinated or patients with pre-existing conditions.
The vaccination campaign with the fourth dose for people over 60 years of age and immunosuppressed was extended yesterday to adults with medical conditions, their caregivers and people at risk of exposure to covid-19.
Almost 4.5 million people -out of more than 9.4 million residents- have a third dose and some 623,000 have a fourth, since it began to be applied in early January.
Israel has led the infections per capita in the world in this wave of omicron and the positivity ratio remains around 25% although the reproduction ratio has dropped to 1.02.
A total of 2,683,443 people have been infected with coronavirus and 8,556 have died in Israel in these two years of the pandemic. (I)
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