Posted on 12/09/20
| News Source: JNS
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on hand at Ben-Gurion International Airport on Wednesday to welcome the arrival of a plane bearing the first shipment of pharmaceutical giant Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine.
Israel inked a $237.5 million deal with Pfizer last month for 8 million doses of the vaccine, sufficient to inoculate nearly half the country’s population.
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On Sunday, the Israeli Health Ministry announced in a joint statement with the Prime Minister’s Office that the country had signed a deal with Moderna, tripling the number of vaccines it will purchase from the company in 2021, from 2 million to 6 million doses, sufficient to vaccinate 3 million citizens. Israel is also in the midst of clinical trials for its own vaccine, called BriLife.
“I have been serving as prime minister of Israel for more than few years, and this is one of the most moving moments,” said Netanyahu. “I have worked very hard, for long months, with the health minister and the people of his ministry in order to bring relief and a solution to the coronavirus pandemic.” Read more at JNS