The worrying rise in coronavirus cases in Israel’s Chareidi sector continues, with about 2,800 Chareidim diagnosed with COVID-19 over Shabbos alone, almost half of the 6,004 new cases confirmed throughout the country. There are currently 48,701 active cases, with 739 seriously ill patients, of whom 177 are ventilated. The death toll has risen to 3,384. Adv. Kabha Mu’awiya, who heads the Health Ministry’s search operations of ZAKA Israel and ZAKA Tel Aviv said: “Fifty teams worked around the clock over Shabbos throughout all the Chareidi cities and yishuvim. Reaching every verified patient over Shabbos sent over 10,000 people into quarantine and curbed the chain of infection.” On Friday, the Health Ministry stated that another 18 cases of the British virus variant have been discovered in Israel. Most of the Israelis diagnosed with the variant haven’t traveled abroad recently, which means that they caught the virus in Israel and there are likely dozens or even hundreds of additional cases of the variant that have not yet been diagnosed. Health officials believe that the virus variant is responsible for the sharp surge of cases in Chareidi communities in recent weeks. The 18 most recently diagnosed cases of the variant were found in Givat Zev, Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Beit Shemesh, Beitar Illit, Modiin Illit, Ramat Gan, Tiveria, and the Bedouin towns of Lakiya and Kuseife. (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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