150 health workers have already been vaccinated.
After about half of Israel's population has already received a booster third dose of vaccine against the background of an increase in Omicron infections , the country has launched the world's first campaign to vaccinate citizens with a fourth dose of vaccine against COVID-19.
This is reported by the Associated Press.
It is noted that the first vaccinations with the fourth dose of the vaccine began to be given at the Sheba Medical Center near Tel Aviv. In particular, 150 medical workers have already been vaccinated. They were vaccinated with the fourth dose of Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine.
“I hope we can prove that this fourth booster dose really protects against Omicron, which is an urgent need today,” said Professor Jacob Lavi at Meditskiy center of Sheba.
In turn, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said earlier that the fourth dose of the vaccine will be provided to people over 60, as well as health workers and people with chronic diseases 4 months after the third dose. >
Israel at the beginning of 2021 became the first country to start vaccination against COVID-19. Now in the country more than 4.2 million people out of 9.3 million people have been vaccinated with a booster dose. Over the entire time of the pandemic, 8242 people have died in the country.
Also in Israel, scientists are conducting clinical trials of a drug against coronavirus called Amor-18. During the second phase of the study, all 18 people on the medication recovered.
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