The Ministry of Health announced today (Tuesday) that 377 people were diagnosed with the coronavirus in the past 24 hours.
This brings the number of people diagnosed to 21,246.
The number of active patients in the country now stands at 5,127 people. 42 of them are in serious condition, of whom 27 are on ventilators. The number of deaths from the virus remains at 307.
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The Ministry of Education reports that 789 students and teaching staff have been infected with the coronavirus so far. 216 educational institutions are closed.
21,969 teaching staff and students are in isolation.
According to a report by the National Knowledge and Information Center for the Corona Campaign that was published earlier, Bat Yam and Tiberias, with 85 and 34 patients respectively, have been added to the map of the main centers of morbidity.
The special report by the IDF and the Ministry of Health this morning is dedicated to morbidity in Tiberias: the city currently has 58 active patients, a rate of 13 patients per ten thousand residents, and the rate of positive tests stands at 10% (in the entire country, about 2%).
Most of the patients (about 85%) are relatively young and are in the age range of 20-49. The majority of the morbidity is concentrated in two Haredi neighborhoods, with 52% of the infections occurring in 'kollems', and 48% in homes.
The report's authors note that "it is possible that the first infection occurred around Shavuot and came from Netanya.".
Another report on Bat Yam indicates that since the beginning of June, 117 new patients have been identified in the city, and there are a total of 137 active patients in the city.
The rate of positive tests jumped from 2.4% to more than 5%.
14% of the patients are over the age of 70. Epidemiological investigations indicate that some of the infections occurred in shopping centers (mainly supermarkets) and some in homes.
