By Ari Rabinovitch, Maayan Lubell and Steven Scheer JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Order early, pay a lot, digitise distribution and stretch the supply. That i.
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By Ari Rabinovitch, Maayan Lubell and Steven Scheer
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Order early, pay a lot, digitise distribution and stretch the supply.
That is how Israel came to be a leader of the world s COVID-19 vaccination drive, reaching nearly 15% of the countryâs 9.3 million population in about two weeks.
The first big decision was paying a premium to get early vaccines.
Israeli authorities have not said publicly what they paid for the vaccine developed by U.S. company Pfizer and German partner BioNTech.
But one official said on condition of anonymity that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu s government was paying around $30 per vaccine dose, or around twice the price abroad.
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