A fourth dose for everyone… or almost.
The Israeli Ministry of Health announced Wednesday evening to extend the injection of a 4th dose of vaccine against Covid-19 to people over 18 at risk, in other words those with a greater risk of contamination, either because illnesses or because of a risky work environment, the ministry said in a statement.
This decision was taken in view of the effective results of the 4th dose, administered in Israel since the beginning of the month to people over 60, the statement said.
The administration of a fourth dose of the Pfizer vaccine makes it possible to multiply the antibodies by 3 to 5 times compared to the 3rd dose and will reduce the number of contaminations, indicated the ministry.
Recommended for everyone
The ministry's superior medical council had recommended the administration of this 4th dose to the entire population over 18, but the director of the ministry has so far only authorized it for a certain category of people at risk. .
In the past 24 hours, the country, which is facing a wave of contamination due to the Omicron variant, has recorded 76,155 new cases.
Of the 9.4 million inhabitants, 614,953 received a 4th booster dose.
In total, 2.5 million contaminations have been recorded since the start of the pandemic in Israel and 8,513 deaths according to official figures.
