Tag: Vaccination
Study: UK coronavirus variant 45 percent more contagious than original
The British variant of the COVID-19 virus is 45 percent more contagious than the original strain, a recent study from Tel Aviv University shows.
The researchers analyzed data from some 300,000 polymerase chain reaction (PCR)...
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...
Kantor Antisemitism Report for 2020 reflects Jew-hatred, tropes exacerbated by pandemic
The Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University’s Faculty of Humanities, in cooperation with the European Jewish Congress, released the Antisemitism Report for 2020, the year of the...
Germany provides $13.5 million to help Holocaust survivors get vaccinated
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) announced on Wednesday the establishment of a new $13.5 million program, funded by the German government, to help Holocaust survivors get access to coronavirus vaccinations.
The new Holocaust...
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,...
Israeli researchers: COVID vaccine antibodies pass from pregnant mother to newborn
Israeli researchers have announced in a new study that antibodies produced from a COVID-19 vaccine can be passed from a pregnant mother to her baby.
The study by researchers from Hadassah University Medical Center, which...
How the IDF’s Home Front Command shifted gears from rockets to vaccines
The Home Front Command has played a critical role in the past year using its close cooperation with local councils to promote health instructions and assist the vaccine drive to all of Israel’s varied...