Covid-19 in Israel: "Now the whole family is vaccinated"
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Israel launched, this Sunday, June 6, 2021, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 for adolescents aged 12 to 16, Here, in a health center in Ashkelon.
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In Israel, some 600,000 adolescents have been eligible since Sunday, June 6 to be vaccinated against the coronavirus.
Report in a dispensary in Jerusalem.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Michel Paul
A short moment of apprehension, and voila!
Yossi Guggenheim, 12 and a half, received the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The vaccination campaign in Israel is now open to all adolescents aged 12 to 15.
But at this point, they came to this dispensary of the Mehuchedet health insurance fund in Jerusalem in a trickle manner.
For Haim Guggenheim, Yossi's father, the approach is quite natural.
“
We are all vaccinated.
The whole family,
he said.
He is the last one who was not.
Now thanks to him, we did it.
I think it's mandatory to all get vaccinated if you can.
"
The risks of myocarditis are of great concern.
Reut Israël, the head nurse in charge of vaccination, is reassuring.
"
The study by the Ministry of Health shows that the danger exists, but that it is very low,
" she says.
In any case, much lower than the risk for a teenager of being infected with Covid-19.
"
In any case, in the meantime, the young Yossi has fully recovered after a quarter of an hour of compulsory rest.
There may still be a slight pain in the shoulder where the vaccine was inoculated.
Clever, the teenager did not choose the right arm by chance: “
Tomorrow we have a knowledge test.
So I'm going to tell the teacher that I can't write.
"
Adolescents who are likely to experience severe symptoms of the disease will be vaccinated first.
Families planning to travel abroad will be included in the first round of vaccinations, the health ministry said.
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