Health Ministry: Percentage of positive coronavirus tests drops to 2.9%

• Author: Arutz Sheva Staff
• Date: 11 March 2021
• Published date: 11 March 2021

The new data puts Israel's positivity rate at 2.9%, and the infection coefficient at 0.85.

Since the outbreak of the pandemic last year, Israel has had 812,823 confirmed coronavirus cases, and 5,955 deaths from the virus.

The country currently has 36,712 active cases, 429 of whom are quarantined in coronavirus hotels.

Another 1,045 coronavirus patients are hospitalized, of them 645 in serious condition, 259 in critical...