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Israel/OPT: UN experts call on Israel to ensure equal access to COVID-19 vaccines for Palestinians GENEVA (14 January 2021) – UN human rights experts today called on Israel, the occupying power, to ensure swift and equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines for the Palestinian people under occupation. “Israel’s roll-out of its vaccination programme against the COVID-19 pandemic for its citizens has been impressive. In this early stage of the worldwide inoculation programme, Israel has delivered the vaccines to a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country,” the experts said. “We understand that Palestinians with resident status in occupied East Jerusalem have been offered the vaccines by Israel.
The world has been facing one of its harshest social, economic, and health crises since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nations worldwide are still forced to take strict social distancing measures, total or partial lockdowns, and difficult decisions to protect their citizens from a fast-spreading and infecting disease that continues to take many lives. All the while, scientists were busy with lengthy research procedures to find a vaccine. To date, there are over 60 vaccines in clinical trials. However, countries have approved a few vaccines and started the process of immunization of targeted groups.
As for Israel, the process of vaccination has started on 7 January 2021, data collected by the University of Oxford indicate that around 1.7 million Israelis are vaccinated, which means that Israel has vaccinated more than 10 percent of its population. Thus, as of 7 January 2021, Israel is leading worldwide in administered vaccines per 100 people, with the United Arab Emirat
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