Covid-19: Israel calls on people 50 and over to urgently take 3rd dose of vaccine
A 60+ receives a third dose of vaccine in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2021 as part of the campaign launched earlier this month.
Since this Friday, August 13, it is the over 50s who can benefit from it.
AP - Oded Balilty
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The Hebrew state was until now considered the best vaccinated country in the world.
Since this Friday, August 13, a third dose of the Pfizer vaccine has been administered to people over 50 to prevent severe forms of the disease.
It is a real race against time that is engaged in the face of the Delta variant of Covid-19.
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With our correspondent in Jerusalem,
Michel Paul
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Until you get the third dose of the vaccine, you are in danger of death.
An alarmist appeal launched by the Israeli Prime Minister to those over 50 years old.
Naftali Bennett asks the health insurance funds to speed up the vaccination campaign, day and night and even during the Sabbath day.
Caregivers over 30 are also offered this new booster dose.
This is also the case in prisons, for inmates and guards aged 40 and over.
They were the first to receive the vaccine last December.
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High levels of antibodies
At present, more than 6,000
new infections
are recorded in Israel
per day: mainly unvaccinated among young people.
But in the people of
the third age
, the vaccine has significantly lost its effectiveness.
The good news is that according to a study by Sheba Medical Center, 98% of people who received the third dose of the vaccine developed high levels of antibodies, similar to those present a week after their second dose.
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