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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuly Edelstein welcomed the 1 million vaccinations in the Arab city of Um al-Farm in northern Israel.
According to Health Minister Edelstein, Israel administered a first dose of vaccine to more than 10% of the population. On the previous day alone, about 153,400 people received the vaccination. Until now, more than 40% of the elderly people over 60 in Israel have already received the first dose of the two doses of the Pfizer-Bioentech vaccine.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the vaccination target was 5.5 million out of 9.3 million people.
According to researchers at Oxford University in the UK, vaccination in Israel is faster than any other country in the world.
If you look at the graphic on the website’our world in data’, in a comparison of vaccination figures per 100 residents of each country, Israel is recording 11.55 per day. However, it lags behind the US and China in absolute vaccination.
Some analysts say that Israel’s high-speed vaccination is aimed at strengthening the position of Prime Minister Netanyahu in a political crisis.
Two elderly people in their 70s and 80s, who had underlying diseases, died several hours after vaccination, but it was not determined whether it was due to side effects of the vaccine.
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