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According to him, the scope of vaccination of people continues to expand.
The civil immunization campaign in Israel began last week. Initially, the focus was on those working in the healthcare sector, citizens over 60 and people at risk, writes timesofisrael.com.
Israel ranks first in the world in terms of population vaccinated with the entire population of the country. 99,000 were vaccinated on Sunday. people. This number was named record. Then 379,000 people were vaccinated across the country. However, according to Edelstein, the record improved on Monday: more than 100,000 people were injected. dose of vaccine.
The Israeli health minister has dispelled rumors that the country’s Pfizer vaccine is allegedly running low.
“I hear talk everywhere about the lack of a vaccine, but there is no vaccine shortage,” Edelstein said.
Because even under the current quarantine, the Israeli education system is operating almost as usual, teachers will soon take priority over vaccines. The vaccination is scheduled to begin Thursday.
If the rate of vaccination in Israel does not slow down, if more than 100,000 people will continue to be vaccinated. people a day: There should be clear relief next month after the pandemic crisis.
These expectations were expressed by Eran Segal, a biologist at the Weizmann Institute for Science who specializes in identifying and analyzing the effects of COVID-19.
“After two or three weeks, we should see a clear decrease in the number of seriously ill elderly and people at risk. Of course, the number of deaths should decrease later,” said the specialist.
Sharon Alroy-Preis, head of public health services at Israel’s Ministry of Health, was less optimistic. She was pleased with the rate of vaccination of the country’s citizens, but saw the need to remember that the vaccine was 95% effective. and that the coronavirus can mutate, reports timesofisrael.com.
Although there is increasing talk that current vaccines also protect against the most contagious virus strains identified in the UK, a possible mutation, according to Sh. Alroy-Preis, probable and difficult problems to solve.
Representatives of the Israeli authorities expect 150,000 to be reached this week. the number of people vaccinated per day, and the country’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu believes that the January target could be 2.25 million. vaccinated Israelis.
That number of immunized people would amount to more than a quarter of the 9.2 million. populations of Israeli citizens.
Ensures that vaccines will not run out
The Israeli health insurance and medical services organization Meuhedet warned on Monday that vaccination rates will inevitably decline if vaccines are not spread over the next four days.
This was discussed on the air of the Channel 12 news program on Monday night. However, Sh. Alroy-Preis assured that the ministry is plowing 24 hours a day to avoid any breakdown. He stressed that Israel works particularly closely with Pfizer, so supplies are likely to be sufficient.
According to a Channel 12 report, the amount of vaccine that arrived in Israel on Thursday is expected to be equivalent to 3.8 million. dose.
So much vaccine is enough to vaccinate 1.9 million. people (two doses of Pfizer are given, three weeks apart). Sh. Alroy-Preis assured that health centers are effectively postponing the second dose required for each vaccinated citizen.
Another 4 million from Pfizer are expected to arrive in February. vaccine dose. One million Moderna is expected. As mentioned in a television report, Netanyahu is in contact with Pfizer and is working to ensure that Israel does not experience any vaccine shortages in January.
On Friday, Sh. Alroy-Preis said that in 7 to 10 days, all citizens of the country will be able to get vaccinated against COVID-19. It is worth mentioning that some ordinary people (that is, those who do not fall into any risk group) have already been vaccinated. Some were able to do so almost by accident, in part because vaccination center staff did not follow instructions on who to prioritize very strictly, while others because stocks stored at vaccination centers were nearing their end.
For example, the city of Arad, southern Israel, summoned the public to a local vaccination center on Monday night, discarding a thousand doses that were to be sold immediately. The longest queues of those wishing to get vaccinated soon spread out near the center. Similar images can be seen in Safede in the north of the country.
According to the University of Oxford, Israel leads in terms of the number of people vaccinated per 100 inhabitants. Bahrain and the United Kingdom are not far behind Israel.
Starting in mid-January, Israelis who receive two doses of the vaccine will receive a “green passport” that will allow them to waive certain isolation requirements.
In Israel, 5,449 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the last day. This is the highest number of infections per day in the last three months.
The Ministry of Health announced the number of infections two days after the start of the third partial quarantine. The quarantine, which began Sunday, will last two weeks, but is expected to extend for several more weeks.
The third national quarantine has entered into force
In Israel, a third national quarantine has been in place since Sunday, lasting at least three weeks or until the number of new confirmed coronavirus cases daily drops to less than 1,000 per day.
“We expect it to last three to four weeks,” said Nachman Ash, Israel’s professor of internal medicine.
The quarantine in Israel went into effect on Sunday at 5 pm in the afternoon.
Israelis cannot leave home within a radius of more than 1 km. Exceptions are made for people going to COVID-19 and for other important reasons, including health care and food shopping.
The schools have remained partially open and are open to children of a certain age. Among other things, people cannot visit the homes of non-close relatives.
According to Asho, the length of the third quarantine will largely depend on the readiness of Israelis to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Israel launched a vaccination campaign against COVID-19 last week. The first cargo plane with Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines arrived in Israel on December 9.
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