In Israel, new reminder for the elderly, fewer screening tests. The country goes to war against the Omicron variant. Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett announced on Sunday January 2 that all Israelis over the age of 60 and medical staff will be able to benefit from a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine.
With our correspondent in Jerusalem, Michel paul
Israel therefore becomes the first country in the world to grant a 4th dose of the anti-Covid vaccine to certain categories of its population. Now people over 60 and medical teams are called upon to receive a new reminder.
The immunocompromised people had already started to be vaccinated a fourth time last week.
This new injection will be given at least four months after the third dose.
Israel at this point is not planning any further restrictions.
” We are on the eve of a real tsunami “, However warned Naftali Bennett during a special press conference. ” At the peak of this wave we will reach 50 thousand new cases per day “.
The Israeli Prime Minister urged the Israelis to get vaccinated without further delay. ” Vaccination protects you from serious illnesses … and quarantine “, He underlined. He said the government was preparing to change the criteria for screening tests. ” We don’t have the capacity to test everyone. No country has it “, He added again.