The Coronavirus National Information and Knowledge Center has raised the alarm on rising infection rates in a new report. The warning comes as Israel records 1,000 new virus cases for the second day in a row.
Noting that the increase in infections may in part be due to increased testing, the authors of the report argued that planned rollbacks in coronavirus restrictions set for next week will speed up the morbidity rate in all of the country's sectors.
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According to Health Ministry data, 1,072 of the 53,667 who were tested on Thursday were found to have the coronavirus, for an infection rate of 2%.
Of the 333,557 cases Israel has recorded since the outbreak of the pandemic, 9,686 are active.
There are 279 people in serious condition, a decrease from the 294 who were reported in serious condition on Wednesday. Of those patients in serious condition, 108 are on ventilators. So far, 2836 Israelis have died.
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