News for Health Ministry Health Ministry chief: Don't travel abroad unless it's vitalPolicies regarding travel & quarantine likely to change, warns Health Ministry director-general. Do arrivals from abroad actually keep quarantine?Health Ministry admits: Supervisors visited just 42% of those who were supposed to quarantine following arrival in Israel. Prof. Ash: 'This is not the time to travel abroad'Health Ministry director-general admits vaccines declining in efficacy: "We have yet to understand why." Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz: 'Enough playing pretend'Health Min. Horowitz condemns criticism of Dr. Alroy-Preis as 'out of place,' says he backs Ministry professionals 'completely and totally.' Health Ministry Director General: Holiday lockdown a possibilityDirector General of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, says a lockdown could be imposed during the high holidays. Data shows coronavirus vaccine reduces number of serious casesInitial Health Ministry data shows percentage of serious cases reduced by nearly half. Health Ministry Director-General signs order shortening quarantineProf. Nachman Ash signs amendment that will make it possible to shorten the isolation to seven days subject to two negative tests. Does Israel have the authority to recognize sex change?The 'Choosing Family' movement asked the Ministry of Health on what grounds it feels authorized to approve sex change in Israel. Health Minister: COVID is here to stay"Government is taking steps to allow us to live our daily lives with coronavirus in the background." Large discrepancies between COVID data from hospitals vs. govtAccording to Health Ministry, there are 46 seriously ill patients in Israel's hospitals, but figures from hospitals themselves show just 27. Prof. Barbash: Half of serious COVID-19 cases fully vaccinatedFormer director-general of Health Ministry: 'We need lockdown before it's too late.' Ex-Health Ministry chief: Too many unvaccinated people, vaccinate everyone'If we wouldn't have had the vaccine, this would have been a catastrophe,' says former Health Ministry director, Moshe Bar Siman Tov. Health Ministry to allow Supreme Court to rule on surrogacyGovernment admits no chance of amending Surrogacy Law, requests Supreme Court rule on the issue in its place. Health Ministry: Vaccine efficiency drops to 64% against Delta variantHealth Ministry tracking finds effectiveness of vaccine against infection drops to 64%, but effectiveness against hospitalization is 93%. Third coronavirus vaccine dose planned for vulnerable populationsStudies show people with underlying health issues don't have sufficient immune response to provide protection. Health Ministry: We must return to 'green pass' systemFollowing spread of Indian variant of COVID, Israeli Health Ministry pushing for reinstating vaccine passport system. Coronavirus Czar tapped to lead Israel's Health MinistryNachman Ash, chief of Israel's COVID efforts, appointed to head Health Ministry after current chief, Hezi Levy, announces his resignation. Director of Israeli Health Ministry resignsMoments before new Coronavirus Cabinet holds its first meeting, Hezi Levy announces resignation as director-general of Health Ministry. Report: Health Ministry eyeing mask mandate for summer schoolMinistry weighing return of mask mandate in schools, as broader plans for renewed mask requirement under consideration. Health Ministry recommends vaccinating children aged 12-15As morbidity rises among children and data shows vaccine to be safe, Ministry recommends lowering age of vaccine recipients. Fear of Indian variant as COVID outbreak strikes school45 students at school in Binyamina contract COVID. Health Ministry says family which returned from abroad connected to outbreak. Suspicion: Litzman's aide was bribed to drop warning labels from food productsAide to Yaakov Litzman among suspects arrested in anti-corruption case in which gov't food warning labels were dropped in exchange for money Police investigate suspicions of corruption in health ministrySuspects, including current and former public servants, manager of medical company and manager of lobbying company, detained. Health Ministry threatens to close schools over lack of cooperationDirector of public health services in the Health Ministry writes to Education Ministry demanding fast testing over Indian variant. Government ministries weigh ending flights from IndiaTransportation Ministry weighing Health Ministry's demand to cease flights from India due to widescale spread & Indian coronavirus variant. Health Ministry considers charging those unvaccinated for coronavirus testsHealth Ministry aims to outsource coronavirus testing, may charge some Israelis for coronavirus tests. Health Ministry finalizes repeal of mask lawsNew relaxations in mask laws are coming as of Sunday. COVID-19 Indian mutation discovered in IsraelSeven cases of the Indian mutation have been found among travellers returning to Israel from abroad. Health Ministry: The epidemic is fading awayDr. Sharon Alroy-Preis says Health Ministry is considering removing requirement to wear masks outdoors in response to lower morbidity.'We're not quite ready to cancel the mask requirement'Director general of the Ministry of Health: We're not beyond the coronavirus pandemic yet. We still need to be careful.Health Ministry: We need millions more coronavirus vaccinesHealth Ministry warns Israel needs millions more doses of coronavirus vaccines, contradicting claims of plenty. After 1 month: Health Min. 'needs more time to check' vax deathsNakim Organization founder: "Maybe someone here can help them count? Apparently there are too many dead and they need help?" Electronic tracking of coronavirus carriers to end soon?Health Ministry announces cessation of electronic tracking for confirmed coronavirus cases, report says. Health Ministry employee helped forge 'Green Passports'Health Min. employee helped members of Telegram group acquire forged 'Green Passports,' report says. Green Passports for the unvaccinated using rapid COVID testsHealth Ministry reportedly planning to launch program next week allowing the unvaccinated and children entry to all 'green tag' locations.Former COVID-19 patients can get vaccinated with one doseThe health ministry has found an alternative to discarding unused COVID-19 vaccines. Health Ministry may share information on unvaccinated Israelis with local authoritiesBill allowing Health Ministry to share information on those unvaccinated against coronavirus passes second and third Knesset readings. Health Ministry: Coronavirus vaccine significantly reduces morbidityNew Health Ministry report shows Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is 98.9% effective at preventing coronavirus-related hospitalizations.Health Ministry study: Pfizer vaccine reduces serious cases, mortality by 90%Senior Health Ministry officials work with Pfizer on study which shows high vaccine effectiveness in reducing overall infection. Hackers impersonate Health Ministry officials to steal IDs, credit cardsLarge-scale phishing attack takes advantage of COVID crisis to steal victims ID numbers to use their credit cards online. 'Health Ministry data were intended to cause fear, not presented in true perspective'Hebrew University Dept of Family Medicine Chairman Prof Amnon Lahad: 'I believe most of them died not from COVID-19, but with COVID-19.'9 children died, 1,787 hospitalized since COVID outbreakSince the outbreak began, 1,787 0-to-18-year-olds who contracted virus have been hospitalized, 100 in serious or critical condition, 9 died. 10 cases of multisystem inflammation after COVID-19 vaccineHealth Ministry to hospitals: Report to us cases of inpatients with multisystem inflammation or myocarditis occurring after vaccine. Health Min. demands obligatory vaccination for teaching, medical, public transport workersMinistry reportedly proposes compensating local authorities according to level of vaccination, medical teams for encouraging vaccination. Health Ministry's Haredi Headquarters: 'We can only succeed together'Health Ministry campaign targets haredi community, urging precautions alongside protective vaccination. Netanyahu angry: 'They're not broadcasting life-saving messages'Netanyahu attacks Channels 12 and 13 decision not to broadcast his COVID briefing tonight, asks public to view it. Health Ministry again lets elderly morbidity tracker lapse after four abridged reportsHealth Ministry COVID morbidity/mortality tracker with statistics from nursing homes again lapses after resuming reports for only four days. Health Ministry seeks to extend lockdown by a weekHealth system leaders meet PM, recommend very gradual exit from current lockdown or extension of lockdown to prevent increase in cases. New ad for Haredi sector 'names' coronavirus victimsHealth Ministry spearheads new campaign to raise awareness of coronavirus risks among haredi sector. Health Ministry: 'It's not an experiment''It's an aggregate information-sharing agreement with Pfizer,' Health Ministry responds to Helsinki Committee report. 4 cases of South African variant detected in IsraelHealth Ministry says a total of 12 cases have been identified so far in Israel from the South African variant. 8.6% test positive, 272 die since beginning of weekHealth Ministry says about 8,013 test positive yesterday with rate at 8.6%. New COVID mutation identified from BrazilHealth Ministry seeks to have people returning from Brazil enter hotel isolation upon discovery of a new, highly contagious variation. Returnees from South Africa required to go into isolation in hotelsNo cases of South African COVID-19 variant detected in Israel to date. Samples of five people who returned from South Africa being tested. Edelstein stops allocation of vaccines to Ichilov HospitalMove comes after the hospital vaccinated teachers in violation of guidelines. The hospital explains: We had leftover doses.Top Health Ministry official: The vaccination operation is amazingHead of Health Ministry's public health services division, to Arutz Sheva: Going into lockdown now will put us in a better place later.Health Min. Director: 30 people die each day from COVIDProf. Hezi Levy says general population may be able to begin receiving vaccines in February. |
