The first phase of the vaccination campaign began this morning (Sunday) across the country, about 12 hours after the prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the minister of Health July Edelstein And other senior Ministry of Health officials have been vaccinated against the virus. Also, at six-thirty in the morning, Dr. Sharon Elrai Price, head of the public health services at the Ministry of Health, was vaccinated at Beilinson Hospital.
As stated, towards the beginning of the operation, Hundreds of thousands of vaccine doses were delivered to hospitals and HMO vaccination centers, with the first to be vaccinated being medical staff at all medical institutions across the country.. At the same time, President Reuven Rivlin is also expected to be vaccinated today at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem.
Corona vaccines in Israel (Photo: Avshalom Shashoni)From tomorrow, they will start vaccinating the population aged 60 and over, as well as populations at risk. HMOs began sending out messages over the weekend to people aged 60 and over destined to be vaccinated this week, but within hours most of the HMOs’ cellular centers collapsed due to congestion.
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In the next phase of the operation, teachers, kindergarten teachers, social workers, wardens and prisoners will be vaccinated. In the future, IDF soldiers and officers will also be vaccinated, as well as those serving in security bodies. In the last phase, the entire population will be vaccinated, subject to the rate of vaccinations arriving in Israel.
Currently, young people under the age of 16 will not be vaccinated, pregnant women, lactating women, people with a history of severe hypersensitivity reactions to anaphylaxis as well as people who have recovered from coronary heart disease.