The coronavirus pandemic claimed 57 lives in Israel over the weekend, the Health Ministry said Sunday morning, as testing showed the infection rate remained high at 9.4% despite a month of lockdown and the country's widespread vaccination program.
The COVID-19 death toll in Israel since the start of the pandemic has risen to 5,074.
As of Sunday morning, there were 1,768 people hospitalized in Israel with COVID-19, of which 1,110 were in serious condition including 302 people on ventilators.