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.

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.

We're very lucky this coming Passover holiday, to have had vaccinations that're making it possible to celebrate more easily. Thank goodness.