The number of Israeli coronavirus patients in serious condition has risen slightly to 696, including 186 on ventilators, according to figures released by the Health Ministry on Saturday. In total, 9,725 new cases were diagnosed on Friday.
The number of people who have received a third dose of the coronavirus vaccine has now reached 2.81 million, with over six million people having received at least one dose.
The numbers suggest that the booster shot campaign is seeing effects, with the R number, representing the average number of people each coronavirus case will infect, having reached a three-month low of 0.95 last week.
On Saturday, however, the R number ticked up slightly, from 0.81 to 0.85. An R number below 1 is evidence that an outbreak is shrinking.
The rate of positive tests was 6.57 percent, a slight rise from Thursday, when it was 6.26 percent. Some 180,000 tests were conducted on Friday.
The death toll has risen to 7,337 and there are 80,823 active cases in the country.
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