700,000 vaccine doses landed at Ben Gurion Airport | Israel Today

This is a shipment of Pfizer vaccines, which was brought forward at the request of the Prime Minister.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visited Ben Gurion Airport, when the plane landed with the delivery of the vaccines against Corona by the Pfizer company.

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At the Maman Group's cargo and sorting terminal at Ben Gurion Airport, reinforcements were held in order to immediately unload the vaccine (about 700,000) and load it on a refrigerated truck, which will transport it to the Sala logistics center in Modi'in. The patients.

Meanwhile, Minister Edelstein had earlier assessed the situation with senior officials in his ministry, noting that "by the end of March we will be able to vaccinate about five million citizens in the first batch."

The Minister instructed the ministry staff to check the possibility of vaccinations even at night to allow for vaccination as quickly as possible.

This is in light of the landing of significant amounts of vaccines in the coming days.

The ministry officials presented the minister with the priorities set, and presented the teaching staff vaccination campaign scheduled to take place Wednesday-Friday this week.

"The world is appreciatively following Israel's vaccination campaign," wrote Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a tweet he published.

To date, we have vaccinated 1,817,000 people in the first dose.

Data from the Ministry of Health show that more than 72% of those aged 60 and over in Israel have already been vaccinated.

This is 81% of people aged 79-70 and 76% of citizens over the age of 80.