‘Israel’ Registers World’s Highest Rate of Virus Infections Per Capita

By Staff, Agencies

The Zionist entity now has the highest rate of daily new coronavirus infections per capita in the world, according to figures aired by ‘Israeli’ television on Thursday.

The figures reported by ‘Israeli’ Channels 12 and 13 cited data from Johns Hopkins University, showing the Zionist entity averaged 199.3 new cases a day per 1 million settlers in the week ending on September 2.

Rounding out the top five on the list were Brazil [188 new cases per day per million people], Spain [178], the United States [129] and France [80].

Meanwhile, the Zionist Health Ministry updated its daily coronavirus figures Thursday evening, leading the death toll to climb to 985 after nine more ‘Israelis’ succumbed to COVID-19 during the day.

The ministry counted 2,991 new cases over the 24-hour period between 10:30 p.m. Wednesday and the same time Thursday.

Wednesday saw a total of 3,141 coronavirus cases diagnosed throughout the day, a new record high for the occupation entity.

Of the 24,825 active patients in the occupied territories, 417 were in serious condition with 117 of them on ventilators, the ministry said. There were 138 patients with moderate symptoms and the rest had either mild or no symptoms.

There have been 124,455 cases of coronavirus diagnosed in the Zionist entity since the start of the pandemic, and 98,645 people have recovered.

Over the course of Wednesday, 35,891 virus tests were carried out, the ministry said.

Ministers on Thursday decided to impose lockdown measures in over 30 “red” cities that have high coronavirus infection rates, starting from Monday.