And, on Sunday, the Director General of the Ministry of Health, Hezi Levi, therefore claimed that about a fifth of the nine million inhabitants of Israel – starting with health workers and more than 27 years -, would have received their double injection “by the end of January”. However, this objective appears to be less ambitious than that mentioned on 25 December by Benjamin Netanyahu, according to whom a quarter of the population (2, 23 millions) had to be immunized in one month thanks to the vaccination campaign.
Israel wants to manage its stocks
The Hebrew state will reduce the pace of this campaign to manage vaccine stocks and ensure the injection at three week intervals of the two separate doses to the affected population, Hezi Levi said on Sunday. As of Friday, one million people had received their first injection, according to the prime minister’s office. According to the program initially outlined, the Israeli government hoped for an end to the crisis in early March, just before the legislative news on 20 March.
In the meantime, faced with a resumption in the number of infections, he decreed the 26 December a new almost generalized confinement of at least two weeks. More than 435.800 people have been infected with the virus in Israel, according to the latest report communicated by the Minister of Health on Sunday, and 3. 310 are deceased. On Friday, the ministry also indicated that it had recorded 09 case of the British variant of the virus.