The Health Ministry on Thursday evening reported 5,036 new cases of coronavirus in the previous two days.
On Wednesday, health authorities detected 3,340 cases of COVID-19 out of about 88,00 tests, meaning 3.8% of all tests returned positive, and 1,696 new cases out of some 52,000 tests on Thursday, which are 3.2% of all tests.
There were 920 coronavirus patients hospitalized with COVID-19 symptoms, 526 of them were in serious condition with 122 patients on ventilators.
Since the onset of the pandemic, 3,170 Israelis have passed away due to coronavirus-related complications, including 22 patients on Wednesday and four more on Thursday.

