Israel no longer wants AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine and is investigating with the company whether a large load in the pipeline could be sent elsewhere, said Prof. Nachman Ash, commissioner for coronavirus, said Wednesday. Ash also confirmed that there was still no certainty about when a vaccine booster would be needed, a day after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israelis to get ready for capture in six months. “We are trying to find the best solution. After all, we do not want (the vaccines) to come here and throw it in the trash, ”Ash told Army Radio, saying that Israel is supplying the needs through other suppliers. In his remarks, Ash does not refer to The vaccine of AstraZeneca is associated with very rare blood clots in Europe. Many countries there have started administering it again after the European Union drug watchdog said the benefits outweighed the risks. Israel seized a wide net last year when it tried to secure vaccine doses at the height of the pandemic, and was pre-ordered by a number of companies. the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine, which launches one of the world’s fastest implementations. The COVID-19 infections in Israel have dropped dramatically and the economy has reopened. Israel also buys the COVID-19 vaccines from Moderna, which use a similar messenger RNA (mRNA) technology. Ash said Israel, with safe supplies until 2022, is no longer in need of the 10 million doses he agreed to buy from AstraZeneca.
cnxps.cmd.push (function () {cnxps ({playerId: ’36af7c51-0caf-4741-9824-2c941fc6c17b’}). deliver (‘4c4d856e0e6f4e3d808bbc1715e132f6’);});
if (window.location.pathname.indexOf (“656089”)! = -1) {console.log (“hedva connatix”); document.getElementsByClassName (“divConnatix”)[0].style.display = “none”;}‘They can definitely be used in other parts of the world. At the moment, we are trying to work with the company to find the best way to do that, “he said. We believe it would be best if they (the vaccines) did not come to Israel, and we agree with AstraZeneca officials did not immediately comment. About 81% of Israeli citizens or residents over the age of 16 – the age group eligible for the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine in Israel – received both doses. 167,000 of the 5.2 million Palestinians in the West Bank and the Islamic Gaza Strip run by Hamas had at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine, with supplies coming in from Israel, Russia, the United Arab Emirates, the global COVAX vaccine sub-program and China. Ash also spoke about the outline of the upcoming festival of Lag Ba’omer, which falls on Thursday next week. The day is traditionally marked with bonfires and in normal years thousands upon thousands of people gather at Mt. Meron to take part in the celebration. The commissioner said only green passport holders – people who have been fully vaccinated or recovered – attend the festivities in Mt. Meron. ‘We agreed on an outline of achieving Mt. “Meron, but we can not say that there are no risks,” he told Army Radio.