The Health Ministry reported on Friday evening that 5,784 Israelis have tested positive for coronavirus out of some 90,000 tests conducted since midnight, putting the country's contagion rate at 6.83%.
Israeli hospitals were treating 667 COVID-19 patients in serious condition, 175 were connected to ventilators.
Since the onset of the pandemic, 7,321 Israeli succumbed to complications of COVID-19.

