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Coronavirus cases in Israel top 100,000

The surge in coronavirus cases come as confidence in Benjamin Netanyahu's government is declining.

Israeli Paramedics of Maguen David Adom (Israel's National Emergency Pre-Hospital Medical Organisation) at the coronavirus national operations center unload a containment chamber during a coronavirus response training exercise in the central Israeli city of Kiryat Ono on February 26, 2020. - Some 80,000 people are infected worldwide, including nearly 2,800 outside China, and more than 2,700 have died worldwide, according to the latest toll from the World Health Organization. (Photo by JACK GUEZ / AFP) (Phot
Israeli paramedics at the coronavirus national operations center unload a containment chamber during a coronavirus response training exercise in the central Israeli city of Kiryat Ono on Feb. 26, 2020. — JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images

The number of COVID-19 cases Israel has registered since its initial outbreak topped 100,000 on Friday, the Health Ministry said, as the government weighs reimposing restrictions to curb the spread of the virus. 

Israel reported 1,496 new cases on Friday, bringing the total number to 100,716 confirmed infections and 809 deaths. The new numbers reveal that more than 1% of the country’s population of 8.85 million people have at some point been infected with the virus, noted The Jerusalem Post

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