Israel: one million doses of vaccines, about to be expired, transferred to Palestine

Palestinian nurse about to inject Covid vaccine in Bethlehem.

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Israel will provide the Palestinian Authority with one million doses of coronavirus vaccine according to an agreement between the two parties announced by the Jewish state on Friday.

"Israel has signed an agreement with the Palestinian Authority and will provide approximately one million doses of Pfizer vaccine that is about to expire and will receive in return the doses that the Pfizer company was to send to the Palestinian Authority," the official said. Prime Minister's Office and the Israeli Defense and Health Ministries in a joint statement.

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The Palestinian Authority, based in the occupied West Bank, did not immediately comment on this information.

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Israel will receive the same quantity of doses of Pfizer (ie one million, editor's note) in September-October 2021 on behalf of what was intended for the Palestinian Authority,

 " according to the Israeli statement.

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This agreement was made possible after seeing that the stock of vaccines that Israel has in its possession meets its current needs,

 " he explained.

Thanks to a vast vaccination campaign, launched at the end of December after an agreement with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, about 55% of the Israeli population, or more than 5.1 million people, received two doses of the vaccine.

170 new cases of Covid-19

On the Palestinian side, only 260,713 people received their two doses in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

From Wednesday to Thursday, 170 new cases of patients were identified in the two Palestinian Territories, bringing the total toll since the start of the pandemic to more than 312,000, including about 3,540 deaths, according to the Ministry of Health.

In Israel, 25 new cases were identified from Thursday to Friday, according to health authorities who recorded a total of about 840,000 patients, including more than 6,420 deaths.

(with AFP)

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