Israeli President Itzhak Duke and his wife Mikhal Duke on Friday, July 30, received a third vaccination from coronavirus infection. Thus, the launch of the campaign for vaccination of persons over 60 years old, Reuters reports. Israel became the first state in the world who announced the beginning of the campaign of the three-stage vaccination of the population.
The 60-year-old Duke was revised by the drug from the American PFizer Pharmaceutical Corporation. “I am proud that I spell on this initiative, vital for the speedy return to the normal life of society,” the president emphasized.
Presidential Chet accompanied the New Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennet. Commenting on the vaccination of his colleague and his spouse, the prime minister noted that Israel became a pioneer in the field of vaccination of the population. He also expressed the hope that as citizens vaccination intensify, expensive quarantine events will be canceled.
Before starting the revaccination of the elderly, Bennet emphasized that the study of the control group consisting of 2 thousand volunteers showed the absence of some negative consequences for the human immune system, after receiving the third dose of the vaccine.
Since the detection of Delta, Coronavirus Israel again faced increasing incidence, the number of new cases of infection exceeded the figure of 2 thousand people per day. Earlier, a large-scale vaccination campaign was conducted in the country, about 57 percent of the country’s inhabitants were vaccinated, among the elderly, this figure reached 90 percent.