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The Israeli government announced on the 3rd (local time) that the cumulative amount of vaccines for the new coronavirus infection (Corona 19) will be 2 million by the end of this month, the AFP news agency reported.
Hedge Levy, a senior official in Israel’s Ministry of Health, told Israeli public broadcaster KAN that day: “We will vaccinate 2 million people (Corona 19 vaccine) by the end of January.” .
He also explained that the vaccination rate is slowing down to maintain stocks of the Corona 19 vaccine.
Considering that the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced that there are 9.29 million people in Israel this month, 21.5% of the population will be vaccinated against Corona 19 by the end of this month.
Israel began large-scale vaccination of the Corona 19 vaccine developed by the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German Bioentech on the 20th of this month, and the cumulative number of vaccinations as of the morning of the 3rd was 1.09 million.
Recently, the number of inoculations per day has exceeded 150,000.
Israel is the highest in the world, with the COVID-19 vaccination rate to the population already exceeding 11%.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prides himself on the ultra-rapid vaccination of the Corona 19 vaccine and said: “Israel is the world champion in the field of vaccines.”
Among these, Israeli media such as the Times of Israel reported on the 3rd that the person who received the corona19 vaccine for the first time in Israel has a history of being in prison for murder.
Prime Minister Netanyahu visited a vaccination center in Um Alpha-Hum, an Arab village in northern Israel, on Day 1, and took a commemorative photo with a man named Muhammad Abd Al-Wahab Jabarin, 66, who is the number 1 million vaccinators.
However, local media officials in Um Alphaheum were surprised to see Prime Minister Netanyahu pictured with Jabarin, according to local media.
Jabarin was reportedly imprisoned for 14 years until 1992 on charges of killing other people with a weapon in 1978.
The Israeli Prime Minister’s Office said it was unaware of Jabarin’s past criminal charges.
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