First Vaccines To Arrive In Israel On Thursday

The first shipment of 110,000 doses of Pfizer's COVID-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in the country on Thursday, Kan News reported.

United Cargo Airlines planes, which will arrive from Chicago, will have special ice plates installed that produce a temperature of minus 70 degrees.

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein visited the logistics center about a week-and-a-half ago, where the COVID-19 vaccines will be stored and removed.

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During the visit, the Prime Minister referred to the actions to purchase vaccines for the State of Israel and noted, "We not only see light at the end of the tunnel, we see a large torch.

"We are here to see directly the entire capability to preserve vaccines at low temperatures and then thaw them and bring them to the citizens of Israel," Netanyahu said.

"We're on our way out of the epidemic," Netanyahu declared, "it will take a few more months, but if we act together as we have done so far, we are already on our way out of the epidemic."

Netanyahu added and clarified, "We will have millions of vaccines; every citizen who wishes to do so can be vaccinated, and more than once."

The Prime Minister also referred to what he saw on the tour, "From what I see here, we have no logistical limitation, this is very important good news for the end of the epidemic in Israel." Read more at Arutz-7