People line up in front of a Covid-19 mass vaccination center in Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
Israel is unlikely to reach herd immunity against Covid-19, even if it is inoculated into all adults, because there is currently no approved vaccine for children, the top public health official said on Sunday. ‘Israel.
“By the time we have 2.5 million children who can’t be vaccinated, we probably won’t achieve herd immunity, even if the entire population that can be vaccinated will be vaccinated,” Sharon Alroy-Preis said at a meeting of the parliamentary committee.
More than a third of the 9.3 million people living in Israel have at least one dose Pfizer Inc.—The BioNTech SE vaccine and about one-fifth are completely vaccinated.