JERUSALEM, Aug 13 — Israelis aged 50 and over began receiving vaccine booster shots against the coronavirus today as part of a government bid to stem spiking infections driven by the Delta variant. The government announced yesterday that it was offering third shots to people aged over 50, two...
JERUSALEM, Aug 13 — Israelis aged 50 and over began receiving vaccine booster shots against the coronavirus today as part of a government bid to stem spiking infections driven by the Delta variant.
“This is an important step in the fight against the Delta pandemic,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said in a statement. The campaign helped to drastically bring down infections, but that trend has since reversed, driven by the spread of the Delta variant in unvaccinated people as well as those whose immunity has waned six months after they got their initial shots.
“We have hope this vaccination campaign will help reduce the impact of the ensuing surge of Covid-19 infections on the severe illness among the groups that are most vulnerable,” he told AFP.
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