{"id":106233,"date":"2021-02-03T15:38:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:38:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=106233"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:38:48","slug":"israel-expands-covid-19-vaccinations-to-all-aged-over-16","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/israel-expands-covid-19-vaccinations-to-all-aged-over-16\/","title":{"rendered":"Israel expands COVID-19 vaccinations to all aged over 16"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211; Israel will expand COVID-19 vaccinations to include anyone over the age of 16, officials said on Wednesday, after turnout for shots ebbed.<\/p><figcaption class=\"Slideshow-description-447Md\">Slideshow <span>( 5 images )<\/span><\/figcaption><p>Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is seeking re-election on March 23, had hoped the vaccine drive and a third national lockdown now in its sixth week would allow the economy to reopen this month.<\/p>\n<p>But serious cases of COVID-19 and deaths from the disease have risen, with the increase attributed mainly to highly communicable virus variants. This has offset gains from the vaccines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reduction in morbidity has rather halted,\u201d Nachman Ash, national pandemic-response coordinator, told Kan radio.<\/p>\n<p>Around 35% of Israel\u2019s 9 million population have received the Pfizer Inc-BioNTech vaccine, the Health Ministry says. But the day-to-day increase in vaccinees has averaged around 2.5% this week, down from 3.05% last week and 3.3% the week before.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that, from Thursday, anyone aged over 16 could be vaccinated. Age eligibility had at first been limited to over-60s and gradually lowered to include over-30s and people aged between 16 and 18.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazingly, while in some countries people are angry at their governments &#8211; almost to the point of revolt, at times &#8211; for not providing vaccines, here they are laying in storage,\u201d Health Minister Yuli Edelstein told Galey Israel radio.<\/p>\n<p>According to a poll aired by Kan, 31% of Israelis were unsure about whether to get the vaccine and 36% worried about its safety. Uncertainty about vaccine effectiveness against some coronavirus strains has stirred speculation that Israel could rescind the exemption from quarantine now accorded to vaccinees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaturally, the more we go down from ages at which the risk is higher, more effort has to be made to bring the population out to get vaccinated,\u201d Ash said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputy Health Minister Yoav Kisch told 103 FM radio that children aged 12 to 16 could be vaccinated from April, pending regulatory approval. Including under-12s \u201cwill take at least another year,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-health-coronavirus-israel\/israel-expands-covid-19-vaccinations-to-all-aged-over-16-idUSKBN2A31W5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211; Israel will expand COVID-19 vaccinations to include anyone over the age of 16, officials said on Wednesday, after turnout for shots ebbed.Slideshow [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":106232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Israel expands COVID-19 vaccinations to all aged over 16 - Fin2me<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/markets\/israel-expands-covid-19-vaccinations-to-all-aged-over-16\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Israel expands COVID-19 vaccinations to all aged over 16 - Fin2me\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JERUSALEM (Reuters) &#8211; 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