People are queuing outside a Covid-19 mass vaccination center on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
Israel is unlikely to achieve herd immunity to Covid-19, even if all adults are inoculated, as there is currently no vaccine approved for children, Israel’s top public health official said on Sunday.
“When we have 2.5 million children who can’t be vaccinated, we probably won’t get the herd’s immunity, even if the entire population that can be vaccinated will be vaccinated,” Sharon Alroy-Preis told a meeting. of the parliamentary committee.
More than a third of the 9.3 million people living in Israel have had at least one dose Pfizer Inc.—The BioNTech SE vaccine and about one-fifth are completely vaccinated.