Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday has informed that the country intends to vaccinate a quarter of its population against COVID-19 within a month. Netanyahu further added that with mass Covid 19 inoculation, he hopes the country could return to normalcy. In a video, Netanyahu claimed "I spoke over the weekend with the heads of the companies that are providing us with the vaccines and I told them that our goal by next weekend is to reach 150,000 vaccines a day".
"This means that within 30 days of reaching this pace we will have administered 4.5 million vaccinations," he added. "Since everyone needs two injections, after one month we will have vaccinated 2.25 million Israeli citizens”, Netanyahu added. The Prime Minister received his jab on December 19 and he became the first Israeli to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Starting Monday, the government began its nationwide inoculation programme. Withing 5 days, till Friday 210,000 people had received the first dose of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
The Prime Minister hopes that the vaccines will help Israel return to normal, and to “emerge from the coronavirus”, enabling the country for the reopening of its economy. Israel will be able to “do things that no country can do”, he added. From Yesterday, Israel entered two week long lockdown, the country’s third lockdown since the beginning of the pandemic. During the period, people cannot travel beyond a KM except for medical treatment and vaccination. The country of nine million has 398,015 confirmed cases of COVID-19 till Sunday.
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