The pressure is already being felt in hospitals: Ministry of Health data published this morning shows that yesterday (Monday) 37,884 people were diagnosed with coronavirus, out of 332,993 institutional tests conducted - with the percentage of positive tests standing at 11.31%.
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Yesterday, the presentation of the data was changed and the confirmed cases include those who underwent PCR tests in addition to those infected who underwent an institutional antigen test.
The coefficient of adhesion (R) is 2.05.
The number of patients in serious condition has doubled in a week, and there are now 247 patients in serious condition in hospitals - 80 of them in critical condition. This is another increase from the last figure of 221.
59 of these patients are on ventilators and another 13 are connected to the ECMO (heart-lung) machine.
According to the data, about 50 seriously ill patients were added within two days.
Hadassah Medical Center reported this morning that 63 patients are hospitalized in the two coronavirus wards at Hadassah Ein Kerem. Among the patients, six are in critical condition (on ventilators) and 18 are in serious condition.
Hadassah stated: "The two corona wards at Hadassah are full and our teams are already preparing a third corona wards.".
148,503 people are in isolation (36,817 added yesterday). 3,743 medical personnel are in isolation, of which 502 are doctors. Another 1,008 in isolation are brothers and sisters and 2,193 from other professions.
Prof. Eran Segal said this morning in an interview with the Neubach Foundation on the Seder Yom program on the B network: "Because it is clear to all of us that we are detecting fewer than those who have actually been infected, I estimate that we have reached 100,000 infections per day in recent days. I estimate that in another doubling or two we will reach the peak. This could happen within two weeks.".
In parallel with the increase in morbidity, the epidemic management team recommended yesterday that the duration of isolation for confirmed cases be shortened to seven days.
In addition, most team members voted against expanding the fourth dose to younger age groups.
Coronavirus Project Director, Professor Salman Zarka, held a briefing for the media and addressed the new testing outline.
Zarka said: "The population over the age of 60 and people with underlying diseases, we recommend that they, when they have symptoms or contact with a confirmed case, do the PCR test, we can offer drug treatment. We are in stable contact with the Manufacturers' Association and the Ministry of Economy to make antigen tests available to these institutions. Currently, there are 150 factories with antigen tests.".
