The world media admires the national vaccination campaign: "Israel started at top speed - then increased the pace" • Farce in France: only 100 people vaccinated in three days • Criticism of vaccine developers in Germany on the EU: "The continent is left without vaccines"
Light for the Gentiles: The world media admires the Israeli success in the coronation campaign for the corona "Give a Shoulder", after the announcement of the millionth vaccinator in the country on Friday.
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The global media highlighted the fact that Israel leads by a huge margin over all countries in the world in mental vaccination;
This is in comparison to the dismal results of the global vaccination campaign so far, against the background of the steep rise in morbidity and deaths from the virus.
France: Only 100 people were vaccinated in 3 days
Israel is at the top of the world table for vaccines per capita, with about 7.44 vaccines per 100 people, and about 150,000 vaccines per day in recent days.
It is followed by Bahrain with 3.29 vaccines per 100 people, the United Kingdom with 1.18 and the United States with 0.64. France closes the table, having vaccinated less than 100 people in the three days since the country began vaccinating at the end of December. Period.
Worldwide immunization status // Source: ourworldindata.org
Why is the vaccination rate in Europe so slow?
First, the EU took longer than the UK and the US to approve all vaccines. The European Medicines Agency, the regulator of the 27 EU member states, approved Pfizer's vaccination on December 21, after being approved on December 2 in the UK and 11. December in the US.
In France, to this figure is added the skepticism of the population regarding the vaccine.
According to a recent survey, only 40% of French residents said they would be willing to get the vaccine.
The French television magazine "Ella Matin" filmed this week at the vaccination center of the General Health Fund in Jerusalem, and told its viewers: "This is how thousands are stored a day, Israel wins the battle against the Corona."
France has openly criticized the media for the slow vaccination campaign, and the government has announced that it will launch a new campaign this week.
"Israel started at top speed - then increased the pace"
In Germany, executives from BioNTech - which, together with Pfizer, developed a vaccine for Corona - openly criticized the EU's conduct in preparing for the vaccine.
Agor Shahin, director of the German biotechnology company BioNTech, told Der Spiegel that "the ordering process in Europe was not as fast and smooth as in other countries."
Shahin explained: "The European Union has assumed a false premise that several different vaccines would be prepared at once. In practice this did not happen, and Europe was left out of stock."
The media in Germany also praise Israel for its success in the vaccination campaign.
The article sueddeutsche published in an article entitled "Israel stores at record speed" the local "method" that proves success in the vaccination campaign: "Israel started vaccinating at top speed - then increased the pace."
The magazine added: "As a country with a small area and a manageable population, Israel stands out as the first in the world to emerge from the epidemic. It will probably become a global model for effective vaccination."
"The whole world learns from Israel"
India is waiting for the start of the vaccination campaign in the coming weeks.
The country decided to use the Astrazenica vaccine, due to the less complicated logistics in transporting and storing it, unlike the Pfizer vaccine.
One of the largest subcontinent newspapers, the Hindustan Times, published an article on vaccines around the world over the weekend, stating that "the world is currently looking at Israel and learning from it, after its ambitious vaccination campaign has already vaccinated more than 10% of its population."
The article also reported extensively on the Israeli struggle in the "Pike News" groups on Facebook, and on the "Green Passport" initiative for vaccinators.
