The Health Ministry reported on Thrusday that the number of Israelis infected by the coronavirus since the start of the pandemic has risen to 16,683 with 13,724 having already recovered and 279 have died.
There are currently 2,680 people sick with COVID-19, 137 of them receiving treatment in hospitals. 47 are considered to be in serious condition of which 36 are on ventilators.
According to the ministry only 5,969 tests were conducted on Wednesday.
The ministry also issued a statement that a teaching assistant in a north Tel Aviv kindergarten had not contracted coronavirus correcting an earlier announcement that she had tested positive for the virus sending 50 children and staff into quarantine