Covid-19: Israel will start vaccination at the end of December, Netanyahu will be the first
Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu receives the first batches of Pfizer-BioNTech's Covid-19 vaccine at Tel Aviv airport on December 9, 2020 © Abir Sultan, Reuters
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The start of the third wave of Covid-19 worries Israeli health authorities.
And the government, meeting in an extraordinary session, cannot agree on restrictive measures Thursday, December 10, a few hours before the start of the very family-friendly Hanukkah holiday.
The only good news: the arrival of the first anti-Covid-19 vaccines, and the start of a gigantic vaccination operation on December 27.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Michel Paul
The vaccination process will begin
in Israel
on December 27th
.
And this at a rate of 60,000 doses inoculated daily in the dispensaries of the various health insurance funds across the country.
For Benyamin Netanyahu, who himself received the first shipment of vaccines from
Pfizer-BioNTech on
Wednesday, November 9, "
it's a day of celebration for the Israelis, who can finally see the end of the tunnel
."
The Israeli prime minister indicated that he wanted to be "
the first to be vaccinated in Israel
", to "
set an example
".
An attitude decried by the opposition, which accuses it of exploiting the arrival of vaccines for electoral purposes, while
Israel is still going through one of the worst political crises that the country has known
.
The health authorities have appealed for the population to come en masse to receive vaccines.
"
The success of this operation depends on you,
" said Minister of Health Yuli Edelstein
.
The more of you will get vaccinated, the faster we can reopen the economy,
”he added.
And it is also indicated that a "green passport" will be assigned in the form of an application to those vaccinated to allow a return to normal life.
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