People line up outside a Covid-19 mass vaccination center on Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
Photographer: Kobi Wolf / Bloomberg
Israel is unlikely to achieve collective immunity from Covid-19, even if all adults are inoculated, because there is currently no approved vaccine for children, Israel’s top public health official said on Sunday.
“By the time we have 2.5 million children who cannot be vaccinated, we are unlikely to achieve collective immunity, even if the entire population that can be vaccinated is vaccinated,” Sharon Alroy-Preis said at a parliamentary committee meeting.
More than a third of the 9.3 million people living in Israel received at least one dose of Pfizer Inc.-The BioNTech SE vaccine, and about a fifth are fully vaccinated.