It is a vaccination at high speed. More than half of the Israeli population has received at least a first dose of the vaccine against the coronavirus, the Israeli Ministry of Health said on Friday, or 4.65 million people out of the total number of people. 9.29 million inhabitants of the country.
35% of the population has even received a second injection, with a rate exceeding 85% in people aged 70 and over.
The Hebrew state launched, on December 19, a vast campaign of vaccination in favor of an agreement with the laboratory Pfizer, which supplies the country quickly in exchange for biomedical data on the effect of the vaccine.
The first dose of the Pfizer / BioNTech duo is 85% effective two to four weeks after its injection, Israel's Sheba Hospital reported last week in a study published in the scientific journal The Lancet.
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The Pfizer vaccine is also 94% effective against symptomatic cases of Covid-19, according to a study of 1.2 million people in Israel and released Wednesday, confirming data released in the country.
"This is the first peer-reviewed proof of the efficacy of a vaccine under real world conditions," Ben Reis, one of the co-authors of this study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Restrictions despite everything
Despite these good results and the progress of vaccination, the Israeli authorities this weekend imposed a night curfew on the occasion of the celebrations of the Jewish religious holiday of Purim, traditionally the occasion of carnival parades and costume parties.
During these three days, gatherings of more than ten people in a closed place and more than 20 people outside are prohibited.
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While the Jewish state is carrying out one of the largest vaccination campaigns in the world, the Palestinians have received just over 30,000 doses, including 2,000 from Israel, which has pledged to provide 5,000. .
On Thursday, the Palestinian Minister of Health, Mai al-Kaila, warned of a "very worrying" epidemiological situation in the occupied West Bank, including an upsurge in the number of cases among young people.
