Posted on 12/31/20
| News Source: CNBC
Israel has already immunized about 647,000 people against Covid-19, a whopping 7% of its more than 9.2 million residents — more than any other country in the world by population, according to the Israeli Ministry of Health.
The Ministry of Health boasted that it vaccinated more people in the first nine days of its campaign that than its total infections. There’ve been roughly 420,000 confirmed Covid-19 infections in Israel since the beginning of the pandemic, according to data compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
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“We are ahead of the world in bringing and giving the vaccines. Israel is the world champion in vaccines, in first place by a lot,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday. “My mission now is to ensure that we will continue at this pace and we are working on it together.”
In stark contrast, the U.S. has vaccinated roughly 0.8% of its population of 331 million against Covid-19 as of Wednesday, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But the agency cautions that the figure could lag actual vaccinations as states report the data. Still, federal officials have acknowledged in recent days that the rollout has been slower than desired.
Read more at CNBC.