The Prime Minister said that the combination of the corona vaccination campaign and the closure that will begin next week, may lead to Israel "coming out of the Corona within a few weeks."
Against the background of the decision to allow the continuation of the studies of kindergartens, grades 1-2 and grades 11-12 during the closure that will begin next week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said tonight (Thursday) that he hopes that by the end of next week 100,000 vaccines will be given per day To the corona virus.
PM Netanyahu on the decision to open the kindergartens // Photo: Itai Beit-On, Sound: Nir Sharaf, GPO
According to the Prime Minister, who noted that 65,000 civilians were vaccinated yesterday, the combination of the vaccination campaign and the closure announced yesterday "will allow us to get out of the corona, and we will probably be the first country to get out of the corona in a few weeks, is a great blessing."
Referring to the decision to allow schooling as usual during the closure period for kindergartens, grades 1-4 and grades 11-12, the prime minister said the decision was made "so that these students do not miss school and also to make it easier for parents."
Earlier in the day, Corona's head of the struggle, Professor Hezi Levy, told a news briefing that the current goal of the Ministry of Health is to vaccinate four million of the country's citizens by the end of March.
"We have enough vaccines, and I hope we will meet this goal successfully. I say with great satisfaction: Israel is the country that has vaccinated the most people so far - 180,000 citizens," he noted.
On the closure that will begin on Sunday, Prof. Levy said that the decision to impose it was made "with the thought that the step is needed to lower the level of morbidity. The effect of the vaccine is not yet felt. We are in the midst of a rising wave of morbidity in Corona."
He added that it may be necessary to extend the closure if the level of morbidity does not decrease.
