Against the background of the rise in morbidity data in Corona in Israel, despite the tightening of the closure, another shipment of vaccines to Corona by Pfizer landed today (Sunday) at Ben Gurion Airport. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu And the Minister of Health July Edelstein Will greet the plane and make statements to the media on the spot.
“A huge day for the State of Israel with a huge delivery on a plane that arrives as part of Operation Returning to Life, a plane full of encouragement shots,” Netanyahu said. “I agreed with my friend Pfizer CEO Albert Burla that we would bring deliveries one after the other And we will complete the vaccination of the elderly population over the age of 16 in Israel during the month of March. “
“Today we are with over 72 percent of those aged 60 and over who have been vaccinated, next Sunday another huge shipment and we will start vaccinating people aged 50 to sixty and that’s how we will proceed,” he said. “The Minister of Health and I agreed That we will start to rise today to a rate of 160,000 vaccines a day, a world record“We have made Israel a global model of success.”
“In the coming days we will attack the economy as well as the vaccines and we will also take Israel out of the corona economy, we will be the first country in the world to come out of it and we will come back to life, we will have a happy Passover,” Netanyahu promised. “I said it’s a plane full of encouragement shots, they call it a Dreamliner, a dream plane, fulfilling the dream of us all to come out of the plague into a great light.”
Edelstein said: “Throughout the day we held meetings at the Ministry of Health to prepare for Operation Returning to Life. You saw the smiles of the brothers and sisters at the stations.
“Already today the medical staffs are receiving the second vaccines and starting tomorrow both the second and first dose vaccines will be given,” the health minister added. “I’ve always been modest in terms of numbers though Now we have reached 160,000. Towards the middle of March we will reach five million people who will receive the vaccines in Corona, It is possible and we will do it. “
An El Al plane with a delivery of Pfizer’s Corona vaccines landed at Ben Gurion Airport (Photo: Facebook screenshot)Nachman Ash: “It is estimated that about 20% of those infected are in the British mutation”
Meanwhile, the Corona Projector directs Magen Israel Prof. Nachman Ash Conducted a briefing for reporters and answered questions about the disease state. “Until now you can look at the picture as a race between morbidity and vaccines,” he explained. “Our goal is to vaccinate as many people as possible. We also saw an increase in morbidity over the weekend.” Ash explained that “There is some reason for optimism that the graph is not rising exponentially but may have started to remain stable. Maybe there is an effect of the previous closure that we know was less effective but maybe still. Still the positive rate in tests is high. The daily average, which reached 7200, is higher than the daily average in the second wave. “He went on to say that” the vaccination campaign continued well, we started the second dose round today, “and emphasized: We have two mutations that we are dealing with – the British mutation that has been here for probably a few weeks. In a rough estimate we do not know how much in our population they are infected with the mutation but probably about twenty percent. This has implications because it probably spreads faster. It’s not harder but it’s very fast. “He added: “In the South African mutation we see only two chains so far, we are trying to locate all the factors in the chains and isolate them. By doing so we hope we can slow down its entry extensively into the country.”
Corona projector Nachman Ash after being vaccinated against Corona
As you may recall, this morning a record of negative morbidity was broken, after the Ministry of Health updated that the number of corona patients in critical condition had climbed to 1,029, including 240 respirators, after 96 other Israelis joined the serious patients situation over the past day.
The data also showed that 5,047 verified patients were diagnosed in the last day after 6.3% of the 81,858 tests performed yesterday were positive. Also, the cumulative death toll stands at 3,645. The number of people infected since the outbreak of the epidemic has risen to 487,680, of which 69,933 are active patients.