What was the world’s most vaccinated country has broken another record – for the most new Covid-19 cases per million people, and it has experts worried.
Israel, the poster child for vaccination, recorded more new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday than at the peak of its second wave when few in the country of nine million were even jabbed.
“This is a very clear warning sign for the rest of the world,” Dr Ran Balicer of Clalit Health Services, one of Israel’s main healthcare providers, toldHowever, the country’s politicians are insistent no new lockdown will be introduced and have pointed out that despite the surge in cases, serious illness and death among vaccinated Israelis remains low.
Talking to reporters, Israel’s coronavirus co-ordinator Salma Zarka said September was going to be a “challenging month” for the country with children now back to school and a major religious holiday approaching. The key issue is jabs. Israel has fully vaccinated 78 per cent of its adult population. It’s a lot and according to Australia’s national plan, at that level we would be close to only “minimum baseline restrictions”.An Israeli child undergoes an antigen test in order to visit the LEGO Space Park exhibition in Tel Aviv. Picture: Jack Guez/AFP
At 82 per cent, Malta is the only country to have got over the 80 per cent total population mark, but Singapore, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Portugal are closing in fast.
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