The Ministry of Health announced on Saturday evening that 1010 patients seriously ill with Corona were being treated in hospitals. The number had peaked so far in January 2021 with around 1,200 seriously ill people.
Israeli hospitals are currently complaining about a high burden because there are also significantly more flu patients than a year ago. At the same time, there are first signs that the omicron wave in Israel could gradually die down. According to the information, around 53,000 new corona cases were reported on Friday. A week ago, the number of new infections in Israel reached more than 85,000, a high since the pandemic began.
According to media reports, the expert Eran Segal from the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot assumes that Israel has already passed the peak of the omicron wave. The number of reproductions has recently fallen steadily and is currently just over 1. The so-called R value indicates how many people an infected person infects on average. If this R value is less than 1, the development in the model decreases exponentially.
Source: Nachrichten
