Ministry of Health: Those who received the first dose will also receive the second • Modernity: "First vaccinations for Israel - in a short time" • Edelstein: "They will only arrive in March"
About 1.5 million Israelis have so far received the first dose of the corona vaccine.
65% of those vaccinated are aged 60 and over, and 35% are younger.
Some are medical staff, and others are vaccinated who have infiltrated or received spot approval in hospitals or other vaccination stations.
Continuation of the corona vaccine to the population, last week // Photo: Moshe Ben Simhon
Against the background of warnings from the Ministry of Health about an expected shortage of first-time vaccinators, the first shipment of modern company vaccines is expected to land in Israel this week.
The company announced today (Tuesday) that the Israeli Ministry of Health has approved for temporary use its vaccine against the virus.
However, Minister Yuli Edelstein announced that the large mass of modern vaccines should land here only in about two months.
The company said in a statement that "the Ministry of Health has promised six million packages, and first shipments are expected to arrive shortly."
Because each company vaccine requires two doses injected 28 days apart, three million vaccines were actually promised.
Those who have been vaccinated will be excluded
All the health funds are currently completing the appointments for the first dose and are preparing for the start of the vaccination in the second dose.
The health insurance companies announced that they would stop making appointments for the vaccine in the first dose, and the Ministry of Health clarified that "those who received the first dose of the vaccine will also receive the second.
HMO Maccabi announced that more than 80% of its members in the risk groups have already booked an appointment for the vaccine, most of them received the first dose.
About 400,000 of its insureds have already been vaccinated.
Maccabi stated that from this coming Sunday, the fund will carry out a second dose of vaccines for those who were vaccinated at the beginning of the operation.
The fund said they could vaccinate up to 40,000 patients daily.
In Meuhedet, more than 158,000 people were vaccinated.
The HMO now has only doses left for vaccination in the second dose, which means that those who have not been vaccinated yet will not be able to make an appointment.
Tammy, 51, received the first dose of the vaccine from MDA, whose staff vaccinated residents at a nursing home near her home. “When they saw vaccines left, people in the neighborhood were called.
They told me to contact my cashier to make an appointment for the second dose, but refused to set me a date for the vaccine.
I do not know what to do".