Since June 6, the vaccine’s effectiveness in preventing new infections has dropped to 64 percent. In February, the effect of the vaccine was estimated at 95.8 percent, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health.
56 percent of the inhabitants of Israel are now fully vaccinated, the vast majority with the Pfizer / Biontech vaccine, but that does not prevent the spread of infection having picked up speed again.
However, 93 per cent of those infected can thank the vaccine for not becoming seriously ill and ending up in hospital, compared with around 99 per cent in February.
On Sunday, 334 Israelis were diagnosed with coronary heart disease, many of them young. The last time more than 300 people were diagnosed with infection in one day in Israel was in early February.
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