Israel continues to lead the pace of vaccination in the world: A little more than a week after the "Give a Hand" vaccination campaign began, about 379,000 Israelis were vaccinated - and in the past 24 hours, the number of people vaccinated stood at 98,916.
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Health Minister Yuli Edelstein wrote on his Twitter account this morning (Monday): "Beginning of the second week of the "Give a Shoulder" vaccination campaign - we are administering 100,000 vaccines a day. A total of 379,000 people have been vaccinated to date.".
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He added: "This is thanks to the amazing work of the Ministry of Health, the health funds, the hospitals and the MDA. And most of all - thanks to you, the citizens of Israel, who are getting involved and coming to get vaccinated. We will continue like this and will also increase the pace even more.".
Prime Minister Netanyahu has set a goal that the number of daily vaccinations in the coming week should reach about 150,000. "I spoke over the weekend with the heads of the companies that supply us with the vaccines and told them that our goal by the end of this week is to reach 150,000 vaccines per day. This is fantastic, but such a scale is a world record. I asked them to match the rate of vaccine supply to the rate of injections, and they told me that they think they can do it.".
The Ministry of Health estimates that the goal is possible and can even be exceeded, as approximately 250 vaccination complexes will open in the coming days.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Health published data this morning showing that during the 24-hour period ending last night at midnight, 3,498 new cases of the coronavirus were diagnosed in Israel.
During the day, the results of 72,763 tests were received.
The rate of positive tests was 4.9 percent of all tests to detect patients.
Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, 403,530 people have been diagnosed with the virus in the State of Israel.
3,226 people died from the epidemic.
The number of infected people who have recovered from the virus stands at 364,714 this morning, while 35,591 of those infected are defined as active cases this morning.
1,057 of the patients are hospitalized: Of those hospitalized, the condition of 590 coronavirus patients is defined as serious, 144 of them are on ventilators, and the condition of 182 additional patients is defined as moderate.
