Health Minister Yuli Edelstein delivered an update Sunday morning on the first week of Israel's vaccination campaign.
"We continue to increase. We are finishing the first week of vaccinations with an incredible number of 280,000 people vaccinated, 68,000 of them over the weekend," the minister noted.
"We continue to provide vaccinations for you, we continue to protect Israel," he added.
Israel will begin its third lockdown tonight at 5 PM in the hope that the vaccination campaign will result in this being the last lockdown.
Data from the Health Ministry show that during the day that ended last night at midnight, 2,630 new coronavirus infections were diagnosed in Israel. During the day, the results of 64,662 tests were obtained. The rate of positive tests was 4.1 percent.
399,642 people infected with the virus have been diagnosed in the State of Israel since the beginning of the pandemic. 3,210 people have died from the disease so far. There are currently 35,525 active coronavirus cases in Israel.