While the French vaccine campaign against Covid-19 drags on, some believe that Israel should be taken as a model.

The Hebrew state is the country that has vaccinated the most in the world: more than half of the population has received at least a first dose of the vaccine.

According to Michael Attal, co-manager of a vaccination center in Tel Aviv and guest of Europe 1 on Saturday, hospital blood pressure is falling and patients over 60 are no longer in the majority in hospitals.

INTERVIEW

Israel's vaccination campaign against Covid-19 is a model: the Hebrew state, which has nine million inhabitants, is the country that has vaccinated the most in the world.

More than half of the population has received at least a first dose of the vaccine.

Some restrictions have even been lifted and sports and entertainment venues have been able to reopen.

>> Find Europe evening weekend in podcast and replay here

A very sharp drop in severe forms of Covid-19

Above all, Israel is seeing a very sharp drop in hospital pressure.

"There is a real drop in the number of people hospitalized and especially a drop in the number of patients over the age of 60. They are no longer in the majority in Israeli hospitals," noted Michael Attal, co-manager of a vaccination center in Tel Aviv, Saturday on Europe 1. "According to the latest study published by

The New England Journal of Medicine

, of 600,000 people who have been vaccinated against 600,000 people who have not been vaccinated, infection rates drop by 94 % after the second dose. There is also a 92% reduction in serious illnesses ".

The Pfizer vaccine, which Israel relied on, would therefore make it possible to avoid developing serious forms of Covid.

>> READ ALSO

- In Israel, the "green passport" to find the activities before the Covid-19 epidemic

The Hebrew state will continue its vaccination campaign in the coming weeks.

Currently, it is young people who are targeted.

“People over 16 have been vaccinated for three weeks,” says Michael Attal.

Hundreds of thousands of doses of Moderna's vaccine are due to arrive in March.

Because Israel wants to anticipate "because it is not excluded that there is a booster, that is to say a new version of the vaccine which must be administered to the inhabitants every six months or every year like the flu" , says Michael Attal.