Israel’s Health Ministry reports that the country has set a new daily record for diagnosed coronavirus cases as the Delta variant surges.
According to AP, the Israeli government has registered 10,947 new cases, two days before 2.4 million students are scheduled to return to school this week.
The country’s previous pandemic record of 10,118 new cases was set on January 18.
Nearly six million of Israel’s 9.3m people have received at least one dose of the Pfizer vaccine. Nearly 2.2m have received a third shot.
