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In the battle of Covid, Israel runs more than the rest of the world: it has already exceeded 10% of the population immunized with the first dose of the vaccine, that is, a million people of just over 9 million inhabitants.
Suffice it to say that Bahrain, in second position, is at 3.45% and the US at 0.84%. It is not for nothing that Israel is called “a success story.” The goal, according to the intentions of Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, is to reach a country that is almost completely immunized by the end of March.
“I feel great emotion,” Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said when meeting the millionth immunized in the Arab city of Umm El Fahem, in the north of the country. “We have obtained millions of doses, we have been ahead of everyone and we are proceeding with great speed to immunize the entire population, to save lives.” A primacy that the Israelis, but also the prime minister, can only appreciate with a view to the March elections. The country has signed a contract with Pfizer for a massive initial froning: between 4 and 6 million doses, according to the media. In addition, analysts emphasize, with a limited population, a homogeneous geographic area, a modern public health system, largely digitized, the country has the characteristics of a perfect laboratory to experiment with mass vaccination. We must not forget an economic fact that the government has certainly not ignored: the sooner the country emerges from the pandemic and the sooner the productive and social system is put into operation. The process of the first phase was so fast that in mid-January the Ministry of Health, as a precaution, will suspend the new vaccines for 2 weeks to ensure the second dose for those already immunized. Then, according to forecasts, the race will resume: 3-4 million doses will arrive in February and more later.
The goal is precisely another record: to make Israel the first country in the world to be fully immunized by the end of March. “That day – said Edelstein – we will say ‘Goodbye, coronavirus'”.
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