From Sheikh Mohammed to the Queen: The most high-profile names to get Covid jab to date
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Published on January 10, 2021 at 12.04
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Britain’s Queen Elizabeth became the latest high-profile figure to join the global vaccination campaign against the coronavirus, taking the jab on Saturday. World leaders have been taking the vaccine in public in a bid to increase confidence in its safety. Recently, Pope Francis also urged people to get the jab, calling opposition to the vaccine “suicidal denial”. He is expected to receive the vaccine as early as next week.
The secret of Israel’s success in obtaining early deliveries of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine -a tradeoff for data on the vaccine’s performance -has raised questions of privacy. Exactly what type of information will the pharmaceutical giant be receiving? Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Health Ministry
Health Minister Yuli Edelstein: “1.8 million Israelis have received” first dose • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu intends to have country’s entire population fully inoculated by end of March.
As COVID-19 cases spike, Israel leads world in vaccine distribution
January 10, 2021
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For the past week, Israel has been vaccinating about 1.5 percent of its population daily â roughly 150,000 people per day â making it a world leader in vaccinating against COVID-19.
New cases have surged to a three-month high, but health authorities have still managed to vaccinate about 50 percent of the country s high-risk population. Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said in a press conference that the entire Israeli population could be vaccinated as soon as April. Within a time period of two to three months, we ll be able to vaccinate the entire population that can be vaccinated, Edelstein said. He added that inoculating the general public is expected to begin by next month.