The Health Ministry on Thursday recorded 967 new coronavirus cases in the previous 24 hours, another record in daily cases since the uptick in cases began at the beginning of June. The total number of active cases has risen to 8,647, with 58 in serious condition, of whom 24 are ventilated. The death toll has risen to 324. Ministers in the coronavirus cabinet agreed late Wednesday night on a seven-day lockdown of neighborhoods in the cities of Ashdod and Lod to stem the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown went into effect on Thursday morning. The ministers also decided on Wednesday night to instruct Health Ministry Director-General Prof.

Israel’s Health Ministry issued an update regarding the numbers of COVID-19 patients in Israel. Since 6:00 p.m. on Friday night until Motzei Shabbos 621 people have been newly confirmed to have contracted the virus. Three additional deaths due to the virus also took place over Shabbos. Five fewer people are on respirators and six fewer people are considered to be in serious condition due to the virus. The number of serious cases is currently 41 and only 23 of those people are on respirators. On Friday, some 16,551 tests were conducted. The number of active ill people wit the virus in Israel is approximately 6,102. This is the first time since the beginning of May, that the number has passed 6,000.

Israel’s Health Ministry updated the statistics regarding the number of people who have contracted Covid-19 Coronavirus in Israel. According to the Ministry, an additional 177 people tested positive for the virus in over Shabbos. Thus far, 18,972 have had the virus at some point. Currently, 3,315 people have the virus. 26 of those people are on respirators and the total number of people who have died of the virus is 300. 15,357 people have recovered from the virus thus far, 47 since yesterday. One of the people who tested positive was a worker at the President’s House. There is currently a discussion taking place regarding the number of other workers that will have to go into isolation and how this will affect the President himself.

New York recorded its lowest one-day coronavirus death toll and hospitalization total since the early days of the crisis in March, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Saturday. The western part of the state and the Capital region are poised to enter the third phase of reopening next week, he said. The state tallied 32 virus-related deaths on Friday, a slight decrease from the previous day after some recent fluctuations in the daily toll. The daily death tally peaked at 799 on April 8. On Friday, there were 1,734 people being treated for the disease in hospitals across the state, the fewest since March 20. The state has gone from having the highest coronavirus infection rate in the country to one of the lowest, Cuomo said. “We’ve done it. We have tamed the beast.

There are currently 18,091 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel as of Tuesday morning. An increase of 179 virus cases in 24 hours was recorded on Monday night, the highest daily number of cases since April 28, when 193 cases were recorded. There are currently 2,652 active cases, with 29 patients in serious condition, of whom 23 are ventilated. One fatality was recorded on Tuesday morning, raising the death toll to 299. There have been over 130 cases of the coronavirus diagnosed in the city of Tel Aviv over the past week, with at least 66 of them illegal infiltrators living in south Tel Aviv and Yafo. Ten workers of the Club Hotel in Eilat were diagnosed with the coronavirus as of Monday, with two workers diagnosed last week and eight more diagnosed on Monday.

Emergency services were called to the Brachfeld neighborhood of Modiin Illit on Shabbos afternoon after a man stabbed his wife multiple times and then jumped from the porch of their 7th-floor apartment. MDA services received a report on Shabbos at 5:42 p.m. about a man who jumped from a building. MDA paramedics and police rushed to the scene and found the man, 40, in critical condition with multi-system trauma. They administered life-saving medical treatment at the scene and evacuated him to Sheba Hospital in Tel Hashomer, unconscious and attached to a respirator. Meanwhile, the police conducted a search in the building, Rechov Rabbi Akiva 28, and a 37-year-old woman was discovered in an apartment with multiple stab wounds.

There are 17,752 confirmed cases of the coronavirus in Israel as of Motzei Shabbos, a rise of 257 news cases since Thursday night. The number of active cases rose to 2,407 of whom 21 are ventilated. The death toll has risen to 295. A record number of 16,160 Israelis were tested for the coronavirus on Friday – the largest number to be tested in one day since the beginning of the outbreak. The Achuzat Eyal nursing home in Ohr Yehuda was the source of nine of the new virus cases, including six residents and three staff members. After a staff member at the nursing home was diagnosed with the virus at the beginning of the week, the other staff members and residents were immediately tested.

Authorities investigating Wednesday night’s stabbing of an NYPD officer in Brooklyn say body-worn camera video recorded the suspect yelling “Allahu Akbar” three times during the attack, NYPD officers said Saturday. Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence and Counterterrorism John Miller says there are many unknowns behind the possible terror-inspired attack, including the suspect’s motive. The man behind the alleged attack, Dzenan Camovic of Brooklyn, had very little social media presence before that attack and he remains in critical condition after being shot by police following the attack. Camovic has been charged with attempted murder of an office, robbery, assault of an officer, criminal possession of a weapon, and reckless endangerment.

The city of Washington capped nearly a week of demonstrations against police brutality Friday by painting the words Black Lives Matter in enormous bright yellow letters on the street leading to the White House, a highly visible display of the local government’s embrace of a protest movement that has put it even further at odds with President Donald Trump. Mayor Muriel Bowser said the painting by city workers and local artists that spans two blocks is intended to send a message of support and solidarity to Americans outraged over the killing of George Floyd by police in Minneapolis. It comes as the mayor has sparred with Trump over the response to the protests and as D.C.

A Navy veteran detained in Iran for nearly two years has been released and started making his way home, with the first leg on a Swiss government aircraft, U.S. officials said Thursday. “The nightmare is over,” his mother said. The U.S. special envoy for Iran, Brian Hook, flew to Zurich with a doctor to meet freed detainee Michael White and will accompany White to the United States aboard an American plane, the officials said. White’s release was part of an agreement involving an Iranian-American doctor prosecuted by the Justice Department, and followed months of quiet negotiations over prisoners. The two countries are at bitter odds over U.S. penalties imposed after President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S.