The campaign to give corona vaccines to children aged 11-5 is expected to begin next week, the corona's commissioner, Prof. Salman Zarka, said this morning (Sunday).
According to Zarqa in an interview with Arie Golan's This Morning Show here on Net 2, the director general of the Ministry of Health, Prof. Nachman Ash, is expected to sign this morning the recommendations of the team for the treatment of epidemics (OT) last week, which last week overwhelmingly approved Matan Vaccines against the virus for this age group.
He added that the special vaccine doses are expected to arrive during the week, and after all the necessary tests have been performed - the vaccination campaign will begin next week.
The commissioner also referred to the drug to Pfizer's Corona, who said the road to giving it was still a long way off: "The drug company has yet to transfer substances to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and get approval from it, but we've already bought doses of the drug anyway."
Prof. Zarqa also referred to the fourth wave that is currently in decline, and said that the Ministry of Health is closely monitoring the various variants of the virus that are found around the world: "It will be difficult to prevent a variant from entering the country, The pulse. "
At the end of the discussion in which it was approved to vaccinate children aged 11-5, IDF member Dr. Arnon Shachar said: It will bring them back to the routine of their lives, to social gatherings without fear and to the cessation of isolation. "
A girl is vaccinated in Be'er Sheva (archive), Photo: Dudu Greenspan
After the meeting, Prof. Ash said in an interview with "Here" that "parents can be safe, it is impossible to wait 10 years to be sure of the long-term effect of the vaccine. The long-term consequences of the disease can also be severe."
He added: "In the national context, everyone who gets vaccinated adds to the possibility that a fifth wave will not break out. It is not right to wait for an increase in morbidity, we do not know when this will happen and vaccines take time to work. ".