72% of Israeli over 60 were vaccinated… “Nationwide vaccination by the end of March”

The Israeli Ministry of Health announced on the 10th (local time) that about 72% of the population over the age of 60 had been vaccinated. Seven out of 10 elderly people who were classified as vulnerable to COVID-19 infection were vaccinated three weeks after they entered the vaccine on the 20th of last month.

Israel is a dominant leader in vaccination rates. The inoculation rate of the entire population (about 8.6 million people) also exceeded 20%. According to the global statistics site’Our Word in Data’, the number of vaccinations per 100 people in Israel on 11 days was 20.93. It is far ahead of the United Arab Emirates (10.99 times), Bahrain (5.25 times), the United States (2.02 times), Denmark (1.98 times), and the United Kingdom (1.94 times).

Since the 10th, Israel has also started a second dose of the Pfizer vaccine. The Pfizer vaccine should be given twice every 21 days (3 weeks). Israel issues a’green passport’ to people who have been vaccinated twice.

Israel expects that the vaccination can be vaccinated by the end of March as the vaccination proceeds as planned. It is predicted that Israel will declare’collective immunity’ the fastest in the world.

The rate of vaccination in Israel is getting faster. 500,000 people were vaccinated 9 days after the start of vaccination, and it exceeded 1 million in 14 days, and 1.7 million in 21 days.

An additional 700,000 Pfizer vaccines arrived at Ben Gurion Airport in Israel on the 10th. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Uly Edelstein’pick up’ the vaccine at the airport.

According to an agreement between Israel and Pfizer, tens of thousands of doses of Pfizer vaccine will be available each week until all Israelis are vaccinated, the Jerusalem Post said. Israel has purchased a total of 18 million vaccines, including 8 million Pfizer vaccines and 6 million doses of modder vaccines. On the 7th, the Times of Israel reported that about 100,000 doses of modder and vaccine were brought in.

Accordingly, Israel decided to increase the number of vaccinations per day to 170,000. The goal was to expand the number of inoculations per day to 200,000 people in the future.

Prime Minister Netanyahu wrote on Twitter that “all Israelis will be vaccinated by the end of March, and we will be able to resume economic activity.” He was vaccinated for the first time in Israel last month and received a second dose on the 9th.

Reporter Lim Sun-young [email protected]