It also became clear tonight that Israel distributes vaccines to Honduras, Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other countries – but does not leave vaccines for the stateless living here: The vaccination center of the Tel Aviv and Ichilov municipalities in the Neve Sha’anan neighborhood, which registered success with more than 10,000 vaccinators, will close tomorrow. The decision of the Ministry of Health not to allocate more vaccines for this purpose. Those vaccinated in the first dose will be vaccinated in the second dose.
Sources in Ichilov were surprised by the decision and told Ynet that the Ministry of Health explained that the decision not to allocate additional vaccines to the stateless at this stage was due to the fact that hundreds of people had been vaccinated above expectations and that these were daily assessments of the ministry out of desire to direct resources to other unique populations. The Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality stated that “since no more vaccine assignments were given to Ichilov, at this stage the vaccines in the compound to the foreign community have been suspended. Next week, the vaccines for the second dose will be renewed for those who have already been vaccinated.”
The Prime Minister’s Office announced earlier that Israel had decided to transfer a “token amount” of vaccines against Corona to Palestinian Authority medical teams as well as to several countries that had applied for assistance in supplying vaccines. This, according to the Prime Minister’s Office, after over the past month “a limited amount of unused vaccines has accumulated.”
The Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement that “in light of the successful vaccination campaign in Israel and being the world’s leading country in vaccinating the population, many requests have been received from Israel for assistance in providing vaccines.” Israel does not produce vaccines itself and has informed applicants that the quantities ordered by Israel are intended “Vaccinate its population and do not expect a significant ability to help, at least until the vaccination campaign in Israel ends.” However, it has recently been decided that it is possible to help with unused vaccines.
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Among the countries that have applied to Israel for help with vaccines are Cyprus, Honduras and the Czech Republic. It was not immediately clear who the countries that received the vaccines were, but an Israeli official told Reuters that Honduras was one of them. Ynet has learned that the Czech Republic, Hungary and Guatemala will also be vaccinated. Each country will receive 5,000 modern vaccines.
Earlier today, the Honduran Air Force’s transport plane landed at the airport, according to the Flightdar 24 aircraft traffic service. It is a plane belonging to the president of Honduras, and will be loaded with 10,000 Modern vaccines – half for Honduras and half for Guatemala.
Since the outbreak of the plague, 5,631 corona patients have died in Israel, 12 of them today. According to data from the Ministry of Health, since midnight, 47,000 Israelis have been vaccinated with the first dose of vaccine and about 46,500 with a second. A total of 33.71% of Israelis, ie slightly more than a third, have already received the two doses of the vaccine.