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A report released by the Research Center for the Fight against the Coronavirus on Tuesday said that “Infection is continuing at very high rates, and a renewed increase [in infection] may be beginning.” It added, “The rate of positive tests continues to be very high, and in practice has not fallen during the entire lockdown period.”
As of Tuesday, 1,094 COVID patients are hospitalized in serious condition, with 316 of them on ventilators. In addition, the age distribution of these patients has changed; the number of those over 60 has dropped, as has the severity of their conditions, most likely as a result of the vaccination campaign.
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Health Minister Yuli Edelstein says that after the lockdown is lifted, the share of vaccinated people in a particular city or town could determine what restrictions are lifted there.
He says the Health Ministry may allow Israelis under 35 to get vaccinated in the coming days.
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