The record number of seriously ill patients hospitalized with Covid-19 is alarming Israel's Ministry of Health. There are currently 441 patients seriously ill with Covid-19 in Israel's hospitals up six from yesterday and steadily rising from 430 on Wednesday. The number of people in on ventilators is 121, up five from yesterday although this is not a record - at one point during the first wave 140 patients were on ventilators.
113,648 people in Israel have been diagnosed with Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic and there are currently 20,151 people ill with the virus. There have been 909 fatalities. On Thursday, 2,066 new cases of Covid-19 were diagnosed in Israel, the first time that the number has risen above 2,000 since early July.
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