Israel is taking a life and death vaccination against 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 is 786,000.
The Ministry of Health said on the 29th that 152,000 people had been vaccinated a day, and that it plans to inoculate 150,000 people a day by this weekend.
Israeli Health Minister Yuly Edelstein wrote on Twitter, “It’s been less than 11 days since I worked, and almost 800,000 people got vaccinated.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also claimed that Israel is the world champion in the COVID-19 vaccination and that “we will be the first to escape from the epidemic and open the economy.”
Earlier, on the 20th of this month, Israel started large-scale vaccinations of the US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and Bioentech’s COVID-19 vaccine for medical personnel.
Israel’s vaccination rate is unrivaled worldwide.
Considering that the estimated population of Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) announced in September of this year was 9246,000, it means that 8.5% of Israel’s population has been vaccinated.
The British Daily Telegraph analyzed in an article on the 29th that Israel is vaccinating as if at war, and that the vaccination rate per population is more than five times that of Britain, which is 1%.
According to the data released by Prime Minister Netanyahu on Twitter, Israel’s per capita COVID-19 vaccination rate is the highest in the world, and the gap is wide from Bahrain, the second place in the 3% range.
Some Israeli vaccinators had side effects.
According to the Ministry of Health, after starting the COVID-19 vaccination, one in every 1,000 inoculated people experienced mild side effects such as dizziness and fever.
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.
The next day, on the 29th, an 88-year-old man died hours after getting the Corona 19 vaccine in Jerusalem.
These were identified as elderly people with underlying diseases, and a direct link between death and the Corona 19 vaccine was not identified.
Vaccination in Israel is an extension of the boldness that has been shown in the Corona 19 response.
The Israeli government implemented high-intensity precautions, including self-isolation measures for all inbound travelers in early March of this year, in the early days of the coronavirus outbreak.
In addition, Mossad, an external intelligence agency, was used to air-deliver a Corona 19 diagnostic kit and mask, and to bring a Corona 19 vaccine for research.
However, despite these efforts, Israel is regarded as a country with severe corona 19 damage in the Middle East.
It is interpreted that the impact of the early easing of the Corona 19 blockade in May of this year and the lack of adherence to regulatory measures, such as the distance of ultra-Orthodox Jews, are large.
According to the international statistics website’World O Meter’, by the morning of the 31st, the cumulative confirmed cases of Corona 19 in Israel were 419,000, and 3,314 of them died.
The number of new confirmed cases on the 28th was 5,815 on the 28th, 5113 on the 29th, and 4,186 on the 30th.
On the afternoon of the 27th, Israel entered into a third blockade against Corona 19 to limit the movement of the people.
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