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Israel on Sunday launched what officials hope is the latest blockade against the coronavirus, according to authorities. step up vaccinations at such a rate that the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu They said they could allow the pandemic to break out in February.
If that happens, it could help Netanyahu’s re-election after a number of mistakes, including remove a first lock, an early declaration of victory in May, the extravagant imposition of restrictions and slow financial relief measures.
Since the start of vaccinations, a week before its start in the European Union on Sunday, Israel’s central health system has administered 280,000 doses of the vaccine, at the fastest pace in the world.
Authorities are considering opening vaccination stations that will operate 24 hours a day. Netanyahu wants the daily vaccination rate double 150,000 doses next weekend.
This would allow, by the end of January, to administer the first and second doses of the vaccine to the elderly and other vulnerable groups, who constitute a quarter of the 9 million citizens of Israel and represent 95% of deaths from Covid-19. in country.
“Once we are done with this stage … we can get out of it coronavirus pandemic“To open up the economy and do things that no country can do,” he said in a televised speech.
The Conservative prime minister will run for re-election in the March 23 elections, which were canceled after the collapse of the ruling coalition last week.
A poll by the Israel Institute of Democracy released on Sunday showed that 40.8% of citizens evaluate the government mostly positively in their handling of the medical aspects of the crisis, while 32.2% judge it negatively. Regarding financial aspects, 52.8% have a negative opinion and only 19.7% a positive one.
The lockdown, which began yesterday, the third in the country, will last at least three weeks and aims to reduce the spread of the virus, which is currently doubling on a two-week scale, the Health Ministry said.
Vaccines mean that “there is a very high probability that this is our last blockage”, said Sharon Arloy Price on army radio, head of the department of public health services of the ministry.
The Jewish state has so far recorded 400,000 Covid-19 cases and 3,210 deaths due to the disease.
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