Xinhua
12 Jan 2022, 21:35 GMT+10
JERUSALEM, Jan. 12 (Xinhua) -- Israel reported a new daily record of 43,815 COVID-19 cases on Wednesday, bringing the caseload in the country to 1,622,053, said Israel's Ministry of Health.
The new daily figure is higher than the previous record of 37,887 cases registered on Tuesday.
The rate of positive results from all daily COVID-19 tests rose to 12.09 percent, the highest in Israel since early October 2020.
Meanwhile, the COVID-19 death toll of the country increased by three to 8,274, while the number of patients in serious condition rose from 247 to 254, said the ministry.
The number of active cases also registered a new record of 222,877 since the outbreak of the pandemic in February 2020, it noted.
Israel's COVID-19 reproduction number indicator, also known as the R number, has registered a decrease, from 2.05 to 2.02. When the R number is greater than one, the patient count increases at an exponential rate.
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