Israel began this Monday to inject a fourth dose of the vaccine against coronavirus to people aged 60 years and over, in full increase in cases caused by the omicron variant.
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On Sunday evening, the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Bennett, announced that all Israelis over the age of 60 and medical personnel will be able to receive a fourth dose of the COVID-19 vaccine if they were vaccinated with a third dose more than four months ago.
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The government is betting on this fourth dose to try to mitigate the effects of the new wave of infections in the most vulnerable people. “The omicron wave is here and we have to protect ourselves,” said Bennett, whose government approved the fourth dose for immunosuppressed people on Thursday, following a booster-dose campaign that began last summer.
Since Monday, people over 60 years of age began receiving those doses at the Ishilov medical center in Tel Aviv, an AFP journalist observed.
In addition, Israel received a first delivery of anti-coronavirus pills from Pfizer on Thursday, at a time when the number of COVID-19 infections continues to rise, after the first omicron case was detected at the end of November.
In the last 24 hours, the country registered 6,562 infections, 50 percent more than the previous day, according to a balance from the Ministry of Health. However, of these, only 110 are serious cases.
AFP
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