The country recorded a record 1,892 cases per million people on Wednesday – nearly 0.2 per cent of the entire population in a single day, stats compiled by an Oxford University research team show.
That was significantly higher than the second worst-hit Mongolia where the rate was 1,119 per million and double the figures for Kosovo (980), Georgia (976), and Montenegro (909), which rounded out the top five.
The figure only looks at one day’s worth of tests and Israel’s high rate is thought to have been driven up by a testing push ahead of schools reopening there.
