Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked said this morning (Sunday) that she hopes that a decision will be made this week to give the third vaccine dose to Corona for those aged 40 and over.
In an interview with Effie Trigger's program in Glatz, Shaked said that "many of the experts I spoke to support and think that it is right to lower the third vaccine to the age of 40 in order to reduce the coefficient of infection. "50 and 60 will be vaccinated for the third time, we can hopefully get out of it without a closure. A closure for us is a doomsday weapon, and we are trying to do what we can."
In Shaked's reference to vaccinations in schools, she said that "within a week or two we will deal with the ultra-Orthodox education system, which has already opened, whether it will be at the end of the day or at the beginning of the day. It will very much happen this week. "
Interior Minister Ayelet Shaked, Yossi Zeliger
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz was also interviewed on Trigger's program, and also referred to vaccines in schools: "We are working with the Ministry of Education to do it in the best way, and in the coming days we will conclude. I want to vaccinate youth with parental approval, and we will do it in educational institutions." .
Horowitz added that "it is customary to give a third booster dose even before approval from another body, this has been done in the past with other vaccines."
Commenting on the possibility of another closure in Israel, the minister said that the government "makes every effort" to prevent this from happening: "Through vaccines, hospital standards, green label restrictions and gatherings. This is a very broad series of measures, some of which we are taking for the first time "We hope it works out."
At the same time as the two ministers, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, was interviewed on the program of Anat Davidov and Golan Yokfaz on 103FM, and said that according to the initial information available to his ministry, there is an estimate that Corona: "We will have to see in the coming days that this trend is maintained, and this is also reflected in the serious morbidity."
Ash also said that "we hope that in the coming week we will see signs of a decrease in the serious illness, in cases over the age of 60 who are in a serious condition. We look forward to these signs in the coming days."
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The words of the three come after a number of directors and senior officials in the Ministry of Health, led by Prof. Ash, call for the third dose of vaccine to be given to people aged 40 and over as soon as possible, after receiving the appropriate approvals.
"Delaying a vaccine for people aged 40 to 50 could cost lives. A vaccine for people aged 40 and over will increase the protection against the Delta variant among the population, and reduce the serious morbidity," said Prof. Hagai Zion, chairman of the Medical Association. .
On Tuesday, 5,867 people were diagnosed as positive for the virus, according to data from the Ministry of Health.
Yesterday, 121,716 tests were performed to detect corona, and the rate of positive results yesterday was 4.93%.
There are currently 48,401 active Corona patients in Israel, 494 of them in critical condition.