The Health Ministry reported that 7,177 Israelis have tested positive for coronavirus, the highest daily caseload recorded since the pandemic made its resurgence, which constitute 6.27% out of some 120,000 tests conducted.
There were 528 coronavirus patients hospitalized in serious condition, a slight decrease from 24 hours earlier, and 93 of them were connected to ventilators.
Since the beginning of August, 209 patients succumbed to complications of COVID-19, eight of them on Monday alone.
So far, 1,048,767 Israelis have received the third coronavirus vaccine dose.