The Health Ministry reported Friday morning that 4,922 new cases of coronavirus have been diagnosed out of some 73,000 tests conducted in the past 24 hours, putting Israel's contagion rate at 6.7% - the lowest such figure since January 6.
The virus' reproduction number (or R value) – the number of people that one infected person will pass on a virus to, on average – has dipped to 0.88.
So far, 3,766,00 million Israelis have received the first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and 2,397,000 of them have also received the second booster shot. Some 147,000 Israelis were vaccinated on Thursday alone.