Israel began its anti-Covid vaccination campaign for children aged five to eleven on the evening of Monday, November 22, becoming one of the first countries, after the United States, to lower the age of access to the vaccine. to curb the pandemic.
The Israeli government had planned to launch the vaccination campaign on Tuesday in the hope of preventing a possible fifth wave of contamination, but as of Monday evening doses were administered to the little ones, an AFP team found in a clinic in Tel Aviv.
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The Hebrew state was one of the first countries to launch, in December 2020, a vast vaccination campaign thanks to an agreement with the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer which gave it rapid access to millions of paid doses in large-scale vaccine effect data exchange.
This campaign resulted in the double vaccination of more than 5.7 million of the approximately nine million Israelis, or more than 80% of adults.
The authorities subsequently launched a campaign for the administration of a booster dose, already granted to more than four million people, and lowered the age of access to the vaccine to 12 years, before giving the green light. vaccination from the age of 5 in the wake of clinical trials by Pfizer, a campaign in this direction in the United States and recommendations of Israeli scientists.
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To launch this new campaign, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett must have his youngest son vaccinated Tuesday morning at a clinic in the suburbs of Tel Aviv, his services announced.