Some 900 people who survived the Holocaust have died from COVID-19 in Israel this past year, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported Tuesday.
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The CBS said that some 5,300 survivors of the World War II-era mass murder of European Jews and other groups by the Nazis contracted coronavirus.
About 17% of those Holocaust survivors died of the virus, similar to the percentage of others of the same age. All Holocaust survivors are at least 75 years old and COVID-19, the illness caused by the virus, is especially lethal to seniors.
In 2020, about 3,000 more Israelis were recognized as Holocaust survivors and about 17,000 survivors died. Of the dead, about 900 died of COVID-19, the government said.
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