Forecast: the number of infected will reach 200,000 per day

The Israeli Ministry of Health believes that millions of Israelis will become infected with the coronavirus in the coming weeks.

Channel 12 Israeli TV reported on Friday that experts believe that next week there will be up to 50,000 new infections per day. In two weeks, this figure will be about 200,000 infected per day.

It is estimated that 2-3 million Israelis will become infected with the coronavirus in the coming weeks.

Dr. Sharon Elroy-Price, head The public health service said, “The pandemic has surprised us again and again, and today, 12% of the incidence is in people who have previously recovered from the virus. We have to deal with a big wave of infection. ” > According to the director of the Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Professor Omer Merin, January will become one of the most difficult not only since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, but also in the history of the country's healthcare system.