Covid: increase in cases among children and adolescents in Israel

Infections among children and adolescents are on the rise in Israel. Recent data from the Ministry of Health indicate this according to which in January the cases in those two groups of the population were more than 50,000, higher than those recorded in each month of the first and second wave of coronavirus and which is putting the ventilated virus at risk. reopening of schools. "We have received a letter from the Israeli Association of Pediatricians - said health minister Yuli Edelstein recently quoted by the Jerusalem Post - in which she is very concerned about the rate of disease in young students. A fact that we have not seen in the previous waves of the pandemic ". For this reason, the government in recent days has authorized the vaccination - within the more general context of the population - of young people aged 16 and over.