Israel coronavirus cases increase by 40% to 427 in 24 hours

Israel's coronavirus cases have increased by 40% to 427 in 24 hours, the country's Health Ministry said on Wednesday. Five of the total patients are in critical condition, it added. "We will reach a situation in which there are many hundreds of new patients each day, and possibly more," Director-General of the Ministry of Health Moshe Bar-Siman-Tov said.