Tag: Pfizer
Israeli Health Ministry set to vaccinate next cohort, 12- to 15-year-olds
The Israeli Ministry of Health is stepping up preparations to begin vaccinating 12- to 15-year-olds against the coronavirus, N12 reported on Tuesday.
The preparations began after health authorities in Israel learned that the U.S. Food and Drug...
Israeli data shows Pfizer vaccine 97 percent effective against British variant
Israeli medical data has shown that the Pfizer BioNTech vaccine is 97 percent effective against the British variant of the coronavirus, the founder of BioNTech said on Wednesday.
Dr. Ugur Sahin, the co-founder of BioNTech,...
How China and Russia are using ‘vaccine diplomacy’ to enhance influence in the Middle...
As countries step up their COVID-19 vaccination campaigns, the politics around vaccines has intensified. For Israel, which has become a world leader in vaccinating its own population, its reliance on Western-developed vaccines—specifically, the Pfizer-BioNTech...
Israel signs additional agreement with Pfizer for millions of vaccines in 2022
Israel has signed an additional agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech for the supply of millions of vaccines for the year 2022, the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on Monday.
The PMO said the signing...
Israel may have achieved herd immunity against COVID-19
Israel may have reached herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 virus, say experts from its largest hospital, Sheba Medical Center.
Herd immunity occurs when a sufficient percentage of a population has immunity—through vaccination or having recovered...
Pfizer vaccine found effective against COVID-19 variants
Israeli researchers report that the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is as effective against B.1.1.7 variant of the virus, aka the U.K. variant, as it is against the original SARS-CoV-2 strain. The vaccine was found to...
Israeli Health Minister: More than half the population fully vaccinated
More than half of Israel’s citizens have now been fully vaccinated against COVID-19, Israeli Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Thursday.
“We have crossed the 50 percent threshold of all Israeli citizens who are vaccinated...
Israel’s COVID reproduction rate drops to 0.59
Israel’s coronavirus reproduction rate continues to drop, according to Health Ministry data released on Wednesday, and now stands at 0.59.
Of the 41,443 COVID-19 tests that the ministry conducted on Tuesday, 679 came back positive,...
Knesset Finance Committee approves $600 million more to battle pandemic
The Knesset Finance Committee has approved the allocation of 2 billion shekels ($600 million) to Israel’s Health Ministry to help it deal with the COVID-19 pandemic, the committee announced on Tuesday.
The money is to...
Netanyahu: Children under 16 likely to be vaccinated by summer
Israel will reach a critical milestone by the end of March and the beginning of April in the nationwide effort to distribute the COVID-19 vaccine, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israel Hayom.
Netanyahu said that he...