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Israel is speeding up vaccination of the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).
According to Israeli media Times of Israel on the 31st, the cumulative number of COVID-19 vaccines in Israel as of the morning of the day reached 786,000.
The Ministry of Health said on the 29th that 152,000 people had been vaccinated a day, and it plans to inoculate 150,000 people a day by this weekend. Israeli Health Minister Uly Edelstein wrote on Twitter, “It wasn’t 11 days since the operation, and almost 800,000 people were vaccinated,” and “Thank you for the medical staff who did the difficult and important work.” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also claimed that Israel is the world champion in the COVID-19 vaccination on the same day and that “we will be the first to escape from the epidemic and open the economy.” Israel has started vaccinating medical workers with the Corona 19 vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and Bioentech on the 20th.
This vaccination rate is unrivaled. Considering that the estimated population of the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced in September was 9.246,000, 8.5% of the total population received the vaccine. The British Daily Telegraph said that Israel is vaccinating as if it were at war, and that the per capita vaccination rate was significantly ahead of the UK, which is around 1%. According to the data released by Prime Minister Netanyahu on Twitter, Israel’s per capita COVID-19 vaccination rate is the world’s highest, showing a big gap from Bahrain, the second place in the 3% range.
While speeding up vaccination, some vaccinators had side effects. According to the Ministry of Health, after starting the COVID-19 vaccination, one in every 1,000 vaccinated people experienced mild side effects such as dizziness and inferiority. There has also been an incident where an elderly vaccinated person died within hours. On the 28th, a 75-year-old man from Betshean in northern Israel died of a heart attack at home about two hours after getting the Corona 19 vaccine.On the 29th, an 88-year-old man in Jerusalem died hours after getting the Corona 19 vaccine. did. They had an underlying disease, and a direct link between death and the COVID-19 vaccine was not established.
/ Kim Yeon Haja [email protected]
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