Chief COVID Officer warns ICU units in Israel already at 'peak capacity'
Health Ministry's Chief COVID-19 Officer Professor Salman Zarka says Omicron wave will be like nothing we've seen before, stresses that ...
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Decision to apply Green Pass rules to shopping malls outrages MKs, retailers
PM mandates vaccination certificates in shopping centers, a move mall executives call "inapplicable and detached from reality." MK Eli Avidar: ...
Haredi sage Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky endorses COVID vaccination for kids
Prominent ultra-Orthodox Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky rules in favor of inoculating children following meeting with senior health experts.
Israel begins children's COVID vaccination campaign
Health officials express concern as reproduction rate continues to rise. Pfizer study shows vaccine remains 100% effective four months after ...
Worldwide COVID death toll tops 5 million in under 2 years
Globally, COVID is now the third-leading cause of death, after heart disease and stroke.
Health officials hail booster campaign as COVID cases hit 3-month low
Percentage of positive tests drops to 1.48, the lowest since mid-July. "Day by day we are overcoming the Delta wave," ...
Government poised to reopen borders to vaccinated tourists starting Nov. 1
Earlier attempts to reopen the border to tourists were delayed due to the fourth COVID waves caused by the highly ...
IDF report claims dozens of children hospitalized for PIMS in Delta wave
According to new data, over 100 Israeli teens and kids have been hospitalized since the outbreak of the pandemic after ...
Amid declining morbidity, corona cabinet to weigh easing Green Pass restrictions
The number of patients hospitalized in serious condition dropped below 500 Tuesday for the first time in nearly two months. ...
Report: New COVID pill cuts risk of death, hospitalization by 50%
Experts hail the medication as a potential breakthrough in how the coronavirus is treated. Health Ministry reports 1,709 new cases. ...