Head of Israeli army’s COVID task force: ‘We will reach tens of thousands of infected people a day. People will not be able to be hospitalized’.
Faraan: The spiking rate of COVID infection propelled by the omicron variant will cause Israel’s healthcare system to “collapse,” the head of the Israeli army’s coronavirus task force warned in an interview on Thursday, reported by Israeli media Haaretz.
“We will reach tens of thousands of infected people a day. People will not be able to be hospitalized,” said Brig. Gen. Reli Margalit, who leads the military unit tasked with cutting off COVID’s infection chain through contact tracing and epidemiological investigation.
The number of new coronavirus cases of Zionists across the occupied territories of Palestine has more than doubled in the past three days as serious cases are steadily growing since December 22.
Although the variant is less likely to cause serious symptoms, the projected spike in infection will likely overwhelm Israel’s hospitals, he argues. “Let’s say it reaches half the hospitalization rate that there was with delta. But we’re talking about much larger absolute numbers. What there will be here in the coming weeks is tens of thousands of [new] infections a day. The numbers will be crazy. The health system would collapse.”
In the coming weeks, he warns that “our hospitals will reach a reality that never existed in the State of Israel…That’s the most worrying thing of all the problems.”
