A nurse will be administering a dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine inside a major vaccine center in Tel Aviv, on January 4th.
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
With more than 30% of their population vaccinated, Israel is leading the fight against Covid-19. But despite more infectious changes coming over its hospitals, it shows the long way ahead for the rest of the world.
After inoculating 82% of Israelis age 60 and over, going into almost for a month lockdown and closure of the national airport this week, Israel points out that the end of the tunnel could be further away. That distorts hope for a vaccine-led rapid global recovery following Davos Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s promise to make Israel a test case for how quickly Covid’s images can help restore opening up economies.
“We will see a wave of diseases that decline, apparently because of the imitation,” Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said at a news conference on Thursday.
Like the European Union fighting for adequate supply of vaccines as US pushes for more shots into arms, Israel ‘s position is a testament to the difficulty of fighting viruses and their ability to going around it quickly keeps him one step ahead of efforts to keep him inside.
The so-called British variant, 50% more contagious and possibly more brutal than the original virus, is to blame for the failure so far of the vaccination campaign and the lockout to prevent the spread, Israeli health ministry officials said .
While the disease rate in Israel has declined slightly to around 9% and people have been severely or severely settled at around 1,100, the number of respiratory patients has recovered, Corona Commissioner Nachman Ash said. More than 4,600 people in Israel have died from the virus, and more than 7,600 people are being diagnosed with it every day.
Although the vaccine is believed to work against the British variant, the more infectious nature of the variation means higher infections and therefore more hospitals. The main goal of the health ministry now is to reduce the numbers of critically ill people getting over hospital wards and eliminating medical teams.
That said, the vaccine seems to work. People who went through the full immunization cycle made up 2% or less of those in hospital, Public Health Chief Sharon Alroy-Preis said, adding “they were definitely more protected. ” Netanyahu has set a target for the admission of Israeli children over the age of 16 by the end of March.
More time is needed to draw conclusions about the effectiveness of the vaccine, Ran Balicer, head of the Covid-19 National Expert Team, told Ynet television, adding that it was likely to take another 10 days to see the country’s crisis needs are declining, allowing the economy to begin to return to normal.
“The sooner we get vaccinated and the faster the population gets vaccinated, the sooner we can control the spread,” said Hezi Levi, director of the Ministry of Health.