Israel's infection rate, now at 1.01%, is the lowest recorded in the country since mid-July, according to Health Ministry data. Of the 85,956 people who tested for the virus Sunday, 810 were found to have the disease.
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The reproduction rate is 0.73.
There are 11,826 active cases of the virus, the lowest number recorded since Aug. 7. There are 279 people in serious condition. The number of seriously ill people on ventilators, which currently stands at 150, is also on the decline.
Although 1,303,484 have recovered from the coronavirus since the outbreak of the pandemic, 8,049 have died.
On the vaccination front, 3,906,905 Israelis have received all three available doses of the coronavirus vaccine. While 5,715,624 have received two doses, 6,219,981 have received at least one dose.
According to a report in The New York Times on Sunday, while Israel was once a world leader in vaccination per capita, it and the US are now lagging behind.
Based on data collected by Oxford University in the UK, the newspaper noted that despite having a surplus of vaccine doses, the US "has fully vaccinated only 57% of its population ... Resistance remains high among some demographic groups and within some specific workforce sectors, including police officers and firefighters."
As for Israel, The New York Times notes that Arabs, Orthodox Jews, and younger people remain vaccine-hesitant. "The country reports that just 63% of its population is fully vaccinated, less than South Korea, Italy and some 40 other countries."
"We do not have the barriers of supply or distribution or access to the vaccine," Dr. Leana Wen, a public health professor at George Washington University, told The New York Times. "The only barrier at this point is people's willingness to be vaccinated. That's what's going wrong compared to other countries that have solved their supply, distribution, and access issues."
Meanwhile, hospitals across the country have come out in a show of support for Rabin Medical Center Monday after the hospital was accused of murder in an image that went viral online.
Officials at the Petah Tikva hospital have filed a police complaint after an image of an inscription on a gravestone for a woman who died of the coronavirus accusings the hospital of her murder went viral on social media.
In a statement, senior hospital administrators said they were "shocked by the inscription on the headstone and express disgust at the serious, inciting statement." It said it would weigh legal action on the matter.
"Without violating the medical confidentiality of the deceased, we will just note that this was an elderly and unvaccinated woman who was brought to the hospital after being treated at her home for a significant time and was admitted after experiencing a heart attack and suffering pulmonary embolism and died from raging coronavirus disease.
"Medical staff treated her with endless devotion, constantly accompanied by dialogue with the family," they said.
At 11:00 a.m., hospitals such as Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv, Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, Assuta Medical Center in Ashdod, Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, and Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba simultaneously posted the hashtag #WeareallRabinMedicalCenter and images of the hospital on their social media accounts.
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz also condemned the image, saying, "These are inappropriate, defamatory words. The staff work to save people's lives. Hundreds and thousands have been saved. And we should be thankful and not defame and slander."
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