Bennett talks with Austrian Chancellor and Czech Prime Minister on handling the Omicron strain | Israel today

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett spoke today (Tuesday) with Austrian Chancellor Alexander Schlenberg and Czech Prime Minister Andrei Babish about dealing with the corona virus and the new strain "Omicron".

During the conversation, the Prime Minister referred to the impact of vaccines and cellular postings by the GSS and called it a "drastic" step.

The meeting, which was initiated by the Austrian Chancellor, was held with the aim of hearing the Israeli government's insights from dealing with the corona virus, given the success of managing the fourth wave and the State of Israel being a global pioneer in the vaccination effort.

Health Minister Horowitz: "I have a big problem with the placements" // Photo: GPO

The leaders shared insights and lessons from dealing with the virus in their countries, shared with each other the challenges of running a country alongside the epidemic and agreed to maintain continuous contact in order to use the shared knowledge to maintain public health.

During the conversation, Prime Minister Bennett referred to the booster vaccines and said: "Why is it so important to focus on the third vaccine effort?

First, the booster has a very rapid effect.

Within five to six days after the third vaccine a rapid change is seen, both in protection against infection and from severe disease.

Second, people who have not been vaccinated at this stage, two years after the onset of the plague, find it difficult to persuade them to get vaccinated.

It is much easier to convince someone who has already been vaccinated twice, to do it a third time.

Moreover, if people do not take the third vaccine, we will see a vaccine bypassing a vaccine of people who have been vaccinated twice, and then they tell themselves that the vaccine is not working and lose confidence in it.

But this is a mistake, because it takes 3 vaccines to be effective. "

Bennett went on to emphasize that "my main point is to go for the third vaccine as soon as possible. People who have been vaccinated twice, are well protected, imperfect, from serious illness, but they can still infect others."

As mentioned, Bennett also referred to the cellular placements carried out by the General Security Service, in order to prevent the spread of the new corona strain, and said: "We try to prevent as much as possible the entry of the Omicron into Israel. Therefore, immediately, when we are still unsure about the variant and when the numbers are still very low, we have closed our borders completely to strangers, at this point. I guess if the variant enters Israel in high numbers, it will no longer matter. "We use cellular monitoring of our security service, the GSS, because it is very early and there is a lot of ambiguity so we use these drastic measures. But, our wisdom as leaders is that once we know more, when there is more information, we can gradually calm it down."

Meanwhile, the Prime Minister summed up his remarks and said: “This is a very important conversation, there are many things we can learn from each other.

Sharing knowledge and insights between different leaders is very effective.

The corona virus, and especially the new strain, pose a threat to each of our countries and to the entire world.

When we work together on the subject, we become much more effective.

Together we can protect our countries, our people and our economy. "

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