Moshe Bar Siman Tov: "We are not making a minimum effort to mitigate the wave""

January 3, 2022   

Omicron is rampant: Data from the Ministry of Health this morning (Monday) indicates that 6,562 people were diagnosed with coronavirus in Israel yesterday, representing 4,831 out of 136,356 tests performed. Did you divide? For thousands of years we dreamed of Jerusalem, so now we want to dirty it? On Saturday: The mother rested, the child pulled the trigger – and was hospitalized in serious condition Are you crazy? Is your child unprotected? One in every 150 children who contracted the virus was hospitalized This is the highest number of daily confirmed cases in three and a half months - since September 20. The infection rate (R) continues to climb and now stands at 1.88, an increase of another 0.04 from yesterday. This is the highest infection rate in over six months (on June 18, the infection rate was 1.92). The number of active carriers currently stands at 37,675 people, of whom 110 are in serious condition - a figure that remains the same as the previous day, of whom 35 are on ventilators. The number of deaths in Israel since the outbreak of the pandemic stands at 8,244, with no deaths from coronavirus reported in Israel since Wednesday, and only two coronavirus patients have died in Israel in the past week. After heavy congestion was recorded at coronavirus testing stations across the country yesterday, there is also concern this morning that the congestion will continue and that long lines will once again be formed at testing stations. The number of red localities in Israel continues to rise daily. The localities with the highest incidence in Israel are Rebava, Ma'ale Adumim, Ganei Tikva, Kfar Kana, Kiryat Ono, Or Yehuda and Mevaseret Zion. The list also includes Tel Aviv, Ra'anana, Givatayim, Rishon LeZion, Kfar Saba, Petah Tikva, Kadima-Tzoran, Beit Dagan, Beit El, Shoham, Givat Ze'ev and more. The number of people vaccinated with the booster, the third dose of the vaccine, stands at 4,262,854. 6,576,493 Israelis were vaccinated with two doses and about 6 million were vaccinated with just one dose of the vaccine. Starting this morning, people aged 60 and over and medical staff can be vaccinated with a fourth dose of the vaccine, as confirmed last night by the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash. Former Director General of the Ministry of Health, Moshe Bar Siman Tov, says that the leadership is not acting as required in the face of this omicron strain of the coronavirus. "We are not making the minimum effort required to mitigate the wave. We are treating it as a binary situation of closure or mass infection," said Bar Siman Tov in an interview with Reshet B. According to him, "there is a middle ground. The infection can be mitigated by limiting gatherings and small, separate groups in the education system." He added: "Health damage also has an economic cost and that must also be taken into account. It cannot be that all of our policy is derived from our unwillingness to compensate. That seems to be part of the story.".