Israel's coronavirus infection rate stands at 5.95%, according to Health Ministry data released Wednesday, as 9,539 of the 175,395 people who tested for the virus Tuesday were found to have the disease.
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The reproduction rate is 1.06.
There are 84,098 active cases of the virus. There are 650 people in serious condition, 206 of whom are on ventilators.
Although 1,105,983 Israelis have recovered from the virus since the start of the outbreak, 7,444 have died.
Israel Hayom has learned that Israel is set to receive a relatively small shipment of UK-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca's coronavirus vaccine in late September. The AstraZeneca doses will be administered to those who developed an allergic reaction after receiving one dose of Pfizer's vaccine or those who are unable to be vaccinated with Pfizer's vaccine for other reasons.
"We are in the process of writing a brief for AstraZeneca vaccines. This is an important solution for those unable to be vaccinated or people who developed a reaction following other vaccines," Dr. Sharon Alroy-Preis, who heads the Health Ministry's Public Health Services Department, said.
The Health Ministry's Epidemiological division and its coronavirus vaccine advisory committee convened Tuesday for a repeat discussion of the vaccination of individuals who recovered from the coronavirus and green pass restrictions for unvaccinated individuals who recovered from the virus following the publication of new ministry data on the subject.
According to the data, those who received a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine have 10 times the protection of those who were vaccinated with two doses between January and March. In addition, those who recovered from the virus and received just one dose of the vaccine have similar protection to those who received the third dose and were twice to three times as protected as those who recovered from the virus but were not inoculated against the disease.
So far, 6,054,298 Israelis have received at least one dose of the coronavirus vaccine, while 5,563,259 have received two doses. Nearly 3 million – 2,966,594 – have received all three available doses of the vaccine.
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