In Israel over the past 24 hours, according to the Ministry of Health on Thursday, June 9, 4,674 new infected were identified.
Israeli “details” write that the number of active infected (that is, capable of being sources of infection) continues not only to grow, but at an ever fasting pace. Today there are 22 587, yesterday there were 19 221, the day before yesterday – 16,539. From the beginning of the epidemic, 4,167,366 people became infected.
The infection coefficient R (the number of people that one person who seized coronavirus manage to infect before he was isolated) grows faster. Today it is 1.28, yesterday was 1.19, the day before yesterday 1.1. The incidence was recognized on June 8 and the coordinator of the government to combat the epidemic Salman Zarka. He explained by his spread of the BA.5 version, a relative of the Omicron version, which caused a large -scale wave of incidence last winter.
Due to the growth of incidence, Prime Minister Naphtali Bennett and Minister of Health Nitsan Gorovitz conducted a discussion with specialists of the Ministry of Health, as a result of which a decision was made not to change the policy. After the statement of Zarka, that in Israel, it seems, a new wave begins, the head of the Ministry of Health said that he “offers to avoid the terminology of waves.” At the discussion, experts recommended restoring the obligation to wear masks in the room.