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Israeli Prime Minister Minister Benjamin Netanyahu receives a coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, Israel December 19, 2020. Photo: REUTERS/Amir Cohen/Pool.
Over one million Israelis have now been vaccinated against the coronavirus in the first weeks of the country’s rollout, a per capita rate that is by far the fastest internationally and which has stunned observers from around the world.
More than 11% of the country’s population has now been given the COVID-19 vaccine more than three times the next-fastest country, Bahrain, and well above the global average of 0.13%, according to data from Oxford University’s Our World in Data.
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After health care workers and nursing home residents, senior citizens older than 65 will get the vaccine regardless of residency status, according to official statements. This would include elderly Canadians visiting Florida. However, there is confusion in some regions of Florida where hospitals are asking for proof of residency. Canada is slower than the U.S. in immunizations but has ordered enough of the vaccine for all of its population. What s False
The COVID-19 vaccine will be rolled out to senior citizens after other priority groups have received their doses. Canadian visitors who are not seniors will have to wait like everyone else for a rollout that could be months into 2021.