Posted on 12/20/20
| News Source: i24
Israel is hoping to vaccinate some 60,000 people with a goal of inoculating another 2 million by January
Israel officially launched its nation-wide vaccine drive Sunday morning after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received the first inoculation live on television at a Tel Aviv hospital the previous evening.
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi, and members of the country's healthcare profession are next in line for the BioNTech/Pfizer vaccine, while Israelis aged 60-plus and at-risk populations can begin making an appointment with their HMO for the jab starting Monday.
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“One small injection for a man and one giant leap for the health of us all,” Netanyahu, 71, told reporters gathered at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan.
“If everyone cooperates, keeps the rules and goes to get vaccinated, we’ll get out of this and we could well be the first country in the world to emerge from this [pandemic]. Let’s do it together,” he added.
In total, Israel has ordered more than 14 million doses of vaccine from Moderna and Pfizer laboratories, the latter having been approved by more than 15 countries, including the United States, Canada and Switzerland. Read more at i24