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Record infections with the coronavirus are currently taking place in Israel. Although the record numbers do not apply to the number of people staying in hospitals, facilities limit the admission of new patients due to the high number of cases of influenza and increasing staff shortages caused by isolation and quarantine.
- In Israel, it reaches up to 60. new COVID-19 infections
- In hospitals, the situation is getting more and more dramatic
- The reason is not even the number of people hospitalized because of the coronavirus, but the “critical shortage of medical teams”
- There are currently almost 8 people in isolation. healthcare system employees
- More information can be found on the Onet homepage
Omikron in Israel. Hospitals stop admitting patients
Israel is in the “eye of the cyclone” of the Omicron wave, as the prime minister of Israel Naftali Bennett described the situation in Israel during the government meeting on Sunday. This mainly applies to hospitals, the possibilities of admitting new patients are running out. Some will be forced to send patients back, others have already announced that they will limit their activities.
Bennett also said he was aware Israel is in the most difficult moment in the next wave of the coronavirus pandemic, but said it “won’t last forever.” He said the government secured a million additional antigen tests to track the progress of the infection wave.
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On Sunday, 436 patients with severe coronavirus were hospitalized in Israel. This is much lower than the records during previous waves (there were then up to 1,2 severe cases), but this, combined with the increase in the number of flu cases and the increasing number of health workers staying in isolation, means that institutions are forced to activity restrictions.
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On Sunday, 7 people were in isolation or quarantine. 716 health care workers, over a thousand of them are doctors and about 2 thousand. 200 nurses.
No decision has been made at the central level yet, but some facilities have already stopped admitting patients. For example, the Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, which began to direct ambulances to other hospitals due to “a critical shortage of medical teams”. In turn, the Rambam Hospital in Haifa has announced that scheduled operations will be delayed.
In Israel, the number of new cases reaches unprecedented proportions. On January 13, there were almost 60. infections, on Saturday there were almost 55 thousand. new cases, on Sunday there were 18,5 thousand. infection. In the previous wave, the daily average of the last seven days did not exceed 10.
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With this incidence rate, still a small number of deaths occur. On January 12, 16 deaths were reported, the highest number since November. Previously, there were only a few deaths a day. The daily average over the last seven days is now 7.
COVID-19 in Israel – shorten quarantine
The number of students in isolation or quarantine in Israel has exceeded 100. This is much more than in previous waves. The education system is still working normally, but many schools are missing even half of the students. Therefore, the Israeli Ministry of Education is calling for a relaxation of the quarantine rules. He wants to return to the Green Classroom program, which allowed the student to return to normal teaching after contact with an infected person after a negative antigen test result.
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Education Minister Yifat Shasha-Biton called for an “immediate reduction in the quarantine of healthy children”. Together with her, 250 school principals signed a letter that mentions the mental costs of school breaks and called for unvaccinated children to be excluded from the quarantine rules.
Doctors in Israel are also appealing to change the rules and shorten the quarantine period. The Society of Public Health Doctors has proposed that people who test positive for the coronavirus should only be isolated if they experience symptoms of the disease, are at high risk of developing a serious disease, or if they may come into contact with populations at high risk of severe disease.
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