Surveillance of COVID-19 in Israel Report for week 25 ending 20-06-2020 Israel Center for Disease Control Summary: As of week 25, a slight increase was observed in respiratory morbidity in the 65+ age group. Clinical: Community clinics: A downward trend was observed in the raw rates of visits to the clinics due to upper respiratory tract infections in the age groups 0-18 and 19-64, however, in the age group 65+, a slight increase was observed. Hospitals (“Clalit Health Services”) There is no material change in the percentage of visits to the pediatric and internal medicine emergency departments due to pneumonia is continued. Laboratory: As of Week 25, one positive case of SARS-CoV-2 was identified out of 100 samples collected at the sentinel clinics. 1 Israel Center for Disease Control ICDC-Israel Center for Disease Control Ministry of Health Ministry of Health Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Gertner Institute, Chaim Sheba Medical Center Center, Tel Hashomer 52621
[email protected] [email protected] Tel: 03-7371500 Fax: 03-5349881 Tel: 03-7371500 Fax: 03-5349881 2. Visits to Community Clinics due to Upper Respiratory Infections (URI) On Week 25, a slight decrease was observed in the raw rate of visits to "Maccabi Health Services" community clinics due to upper respiratory infections. This decrease is mainly reflected in the age groups 0-18 and 19-64, the slight increase is continued in the 65+ age group (Figures 1 and 2). A similar picture was observed at “Clalit Health Services". Figure 1: Weelky rate of visits due