With much of the Israeli public now vaccinated, the Coronavirus spread continues to drop
The fortunate news continues coming in Israel:
The positive test rate identifying infections tumbled to its lowest level in nearly a year, the Health Ministry said Thursday, as the country reached the milestone of immunizing over half against COVID-19.We're very lucky this coming Passover holiday, to have had vaccinations that're making it possible to celebrate more easily. Thank goodness.
Figures released by the ministry showed the positive rate for virus tests analyzed Wednesday was just 1.3%, the lowest level since June 2020. A week ago the positive test rate was 2% and a week before that it was 3%. [...]
In a further indication of shrinking infections, the virus’s basic reproduction number, representing the average number of people each virus carrier infects, was given as 0.55, having dropped from a value of 0.59 given the day before. Any figure under 1 means the outbreak is abating. The figure represents the situation as of 10 days ago due to the incubation period.
Ministry data also showed that 50.07% of the population have now received both doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine that Israel is using for its national COVID-19 inoculation program. Those who have received at least the first dose amount to 55.96% of the population.
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