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By Zalman Ahnsaf
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Tuesday, December 29, 2020 at 3:46 pm | י ד טבת תשפ א
Receiving a Covid-19 vaccine at Clalit Covid-19 vaccination center at the Kaplan Medical Center in Rehovot, Tuesday. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
It’s not only Israeli leaders who are patting themselves on the back for their world-beating rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination. World leaders and major news media are patting them on the back too and wondering aloud why their own countries are lagging behind.
In Israel on Tuesday, the 500,000th person was vaccinated, achieved in just the first week of its vaccination drive.
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein and various lesser figures were on hand for the historic shot, at the vaccination facility at the Pais Arena in Yerushalayim.
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Health authorities said Monday that since the start of Israel s national coronavirus vaccination campaign less than two weeks ago, over 379,000 people have already been inoculated.
The Health Ministry said 100,000 people received the vaccine on Sunday alone, after hospitals were authorized to establish vaccination centers for the public in an effort to alleviate the heavy workload off of HMOs. So far, medical centers were allowed to vaccinate only members of staff.
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A man receives a COVID-19 vaccine at Maccabi Healthcare Services vaccination center in Modiin, on December 24, 2020. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
The Health Ministry on Monday announced a new daily record in coronavirus vaccination numbers, with 98,916 shots administered the previous day, a week after Israel began its inoculation campaign. The total number of inoculations in the country stood at 379,000.
In a statement, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein praised the various authorities and care providers for their work in quickly administering the vaccine, as well as the public for its enthusiasm in receiving it.
“We’ll continue in this manner, and we’ll increase the pace even further,” he said.
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A 75-year-old man from Beit She’an died of a heart attack about two hours after being vaccinated against the novel coronavirus on Monday morning, the Health Ministry reported.
The Jerusalem Post reports that man had preexisting conditions and had suffered from heart attacks in the past, it said.
Health Ministry director-general Chezy Levy has launched an investigation into the incident. “We share in the grief of the family,” he said in a statement.
The man was inoculated at around 8:30 a.m. at a Clalit Health Services clinic. He stayed at the facility, as is customary, for a short period of time to ensure he had no side effects. When he felt well, the clinic released him.
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Israel’s per capita vaccination rate is already the highest in the world, according to Our World in Data, a scientific online publication whose research team is based at the University of Oxford.
By JNS
Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Monday that Israel was approaching 100,000 COVID-19 vaccinations per day, and vowed to increase the rate even further.
“So far, we have vaccinated 379,000 people,” said Edelstein, as Israel began the second week of its coronavirus vaccination campaign. “This is thanks to the amazing work of the Health Ministry, HMOs, hospitals and more.”