“Approximately half a million vaccinators” Israel today

the minister of Health July (Joel) Edelstein exists today (Crimson) A press conference at the United Vaccine Center in Sderot. In his statement, he referred to the vaccination campaign, and to the closure that Israel entered yesterday.

“We are working at a crazy pace and approaching half a million vaccinators in the State of Israel. There will be no shortage of vaccines. We are expected to receive shipments with millions of vaccines, and we are trying to get more vaccine doses ahead of time,” Edelstein said. “In the meantime, priority must be given to the populations at risk.”

The Minister of Health also referred to the closure, which Israel entered yesterday, and said hopefully: “From this closure we can come out differently, about vaccinating the population. We will continue the vaccination campaign at the same time as opening the economy.”

Earlier, Edelstein said:“The beginning of the second week of the vaccination campaign, and we are scraping the 100,000 vaccines a day. This is thanks to the amazing work of the Ministry of Health, the HMOs, the hospitals and MDA. And most of all – thanks to you, the citizens of Israel, that you get involved and get vaccinated. We will continue like this, and we will also increase the pace even further. “

According to our world in data website, which monitors the state of immunization for corona in the world and centralizes the data from Oxford University, Israel is in first place in the rate of immunization for corona per capita. In second place is Bahrain, in third place Britain, followed by the United States and Russia in fourth and fifth places respectively.

Health Minister Edelstein.
Meanwhile, yesterday Corona Commissioner Prof. Nachman Ash gave a press briefing ahead of the closure, which took effect at 5:00 p.m. “Closure – a step that is neither easy nor simple, but it saves lives,” he stressed. “We may be able to begin to see the impact of quarantine within two weeks. We will look at population immunization and how it affects the number of critically ill patients – and accordingly consider what the recommendation for continued quarantine will be.

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