Three more deaths raise Israel’s covid-19 toll to 43

 Although confirmed coronavirus cases jumped by 161 overnight to 7,589 Saturday morning, the number of critical patients on respirators remained stable at 98. Two elder women and a man with existing ailments died overnight – one at Ichilov Hospital in Tel Aviv, another at a senior citizens home in Beersheba and a third at Barzilai hospital in Ashdod. The death toll now stands at 43.