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Israel’s COVID toll puts it 47th in world for deaths per capita, expert says
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleWith Israel’s COVID-19 death toll at 9,135, Prof. Eran Segal, a computational biologist, notes on Channel 12 that 1 in every 1,000 Israelis has died of COVID.
That puts Israel 47th in the world for deaths per capita, he says. In the US, the per-capita death rate is almost three times as bad.
Some 2 million Israelis have tested positive in the current Omicron wave, says Segal. About 900 people have died during the wave — which underlines that Omicron is less deadly than previous waves, with 1 fatality per 2,000 confirmed cases.
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