“We didn’t even start”… 49% immunization rate Israel starts returning to daily life

It is trying to return to daily life in Israil, the country that has the highest vaccination rate for the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19).

Times of Israel reported that from this day on the 21st (local time), some containment measures were lifted and vitality began to circulate.

On the 7th, social distancing was partially eased, and the second-stage return to daily routine began from this day.

In fact, a person who had completed the second vaccination and was issued a’green passport’ entered a swimming pool in Tel Aviv, the capital of Israel.

Citizens who visited the gym could easily find it.

Markets, general stores, and shopping malls also opened to welcome guests, and cultural facilities such as libraries and museums also received visitors.

Israel is issuing a’green passport’ through an application that proves this when the second vaccination is completed.

Israel’s high vaccination rate is what made it possible to quickly return to normal life.

Currently, in Israel, 437 million people, 49% of the total population of about 8.87 million, have been vaccinated more than once. That’s almost half the figure.

In addition, about 34% of the population, 2.99 million people, has completed two vaccinations.

Here, the number of confirmed cases, which once exceeded 10,000, has dropped sharply, and recently it has only been in the early 3,000 range.

According to the Israeli Ministry of Health, after two weeks of vaccination, the infection prevention rate rises to 95.8% and the death control rate rises to 98.9%. It is an analysis that the greater the number of vaccinations, the greater the effect.

Accordingly, countries around the world are also watching the case of Israel.

Anthony Pouch, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the United States, said in an interview with Time of Israel, “I consider the case of Israel as a model.”

However, there is still a long way to go in order to reach’collective immunity’, where a full return to daily life is possible.

The first vaccination is close to half, but only 34% of the population has completed the second vaccination. Also, in the case of Pfizer vaccine, it has been approved for emergency use only for those over the age of 16, so it is a homework that needs to be solved for inoculation of children under the age of 16.

In fact, Professor Nahman Ash, who is in charge of Israel’s COVID-19 quarantine, stressed that it is too early to release the alert, saying, “Only 70% of the population must be vaccinated to achieve collective immunity.

Meanwhile, in Korea, from 9 am on the 26th, AstraZeneca Corona 19 vaccination will be started for 289271 out of the total 3,028,930 hospitalized, residents, and workers under the age of 65, including nursing hospitals and facilities, from 9 am. do.

The central quarantine countermeasures headquarters (Bang Dae-bon) said, “The nursing hospital will start vaccination from 9 o’clock on the 26th, and the therapist and treatment hospital will start vaccination from the 27th.”

The vaccine is a product produced by SK Bioscience, a domestic consigned manufacturer. From the 24th to the 28th, about 750,000 people (1.5 million times) will be sequentially supplied to the Gyeonggi-Icheon distribution center.

From the 27th, Pfizer’s vaccine will be given priority to 54,910 (94.6% consent rate) out of all 58,029 medical personnel treating COVID-19 patients. The government plans to start vaccinating Pfizer’s vaccine for 58,500 people (117,000 doses), which will be received through’CoVax Facility’, an international project for the joint purchase and distribution of vaccines.

The Pfizer vaccine has undergone special importation from the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety.

“Vaccination will be conducted in the order of the central vaccination center, regional and regional vaccination centers, and self-inoculated medical institutions,” said Eun-kyung Jung, director of the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and the head of the central quarantine measures. To ensure that Pfizer vaccination can be safely performed, the in-house vaccination medical institution will participate in on-site training at the vaccination center.”

The first vaccination will be administered from February to March, and the second vaccination will be administered from April to May.

The government is promoting the introduction of vaccines for a total of 79 million people. This amounts to 152.4% of the total population of Korea (5182 million).

Specifically, △AstraZeneca (for 10 million people) △Jansen (for 6 million people), Modena (for 20 million people) △Pfizer (for 13 million people) △Novabacks (for 20 million people). In addition, the government plans to receive 10 million AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines through the international project’Covax Facility’, an international project for the joint purchase and distribution of vaccines.

The government aims to achieve collective immunity by November.

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