Still ahead of the rest of the other countries, Israel has just opened the vaccination campaign this Sunday for 12-16 year olds.
A new step in the vaccination campaign
“It is important for me to have my children vaccinated … The sooner my children are vaccinated, the better it will be”, 48-year-old Israeli Miriam Schwartz told AFP on Sunday accompanying her teenagers aged 12 and 14 to a vaccination center in Jerusalem. In fact, vaccination has just taken a new step in this country by opening vaccination to adolescents aged 12-16 years. For Ofek, a 15-year-old boy, who came to receive his first dose, the vaccine was expected “I was waiting for this moment, to be able to be vaccinated, in order to travel outside Israel and see a part of my family that I have not seen for two years”, relate Le Figaro. “Most of my friends don’t really talk about the fear of ‘corona’, because we young people are less at risk than adults, but more because I can now travel without quarantine on my way back to Israel”, he says.
Pfizer-BioNTech a “safe and effective” vaccine for this segment of the population
To date, nearly 55% of the Israeli population has been fully vaccinated, thanks to a vast vaccination campaign launched at the end of 2020, after an agreement with the German-American laboratories, Pfizer-BioNTech. They have delivered millions of doses to countries in exchange for data on the effects of vaccination in this country of 9.3 million people. Giving place, moreover, to the largest study in real life, confirming the effectiveness of the serum. And despite the upsurge of myocarditis in vaccinated young people, health authorities agree that the risks specific to the virus are much greater than those linked to vaccination.
The Jewish Voice reveals that a ceremony was held this Sunday in Israel to pay tribute to medical personnel in the fight against Covid-19. The Israeli head of state, Benjamin Netanyahu, praised the cooperation with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer, whose director Albert Bourla briefly thanked the Israelis by video. “I would like to congratulate the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health, the scientists with whom we have partnered in the country, the health care providers who administered the vaccine and the whole nation of Israel for carrying out a program also effective vaccination. Your efforts are helping show the world that science can win the battle against COVID-19. Thank you.”. The Prime Minister also added that it is now possible to consider the end of the mask in closed spaces by mid-June if the rate of contamination continues to decline. “In five months, we have gone from 10,000 patients a day to four in the last 24 hours”, he prides himself.
