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Israel to offer third dose of Covid vaccines amid surge in delta variant

Telegraph, 30 Jul 2021
Israel is to offer a third booster dose of the Pfizer vaccine to over-60s in a bid to keep the delta variant at bay, becoming the third country to run a live trial of a three-jab vaccination plan.

Israeli officials took the decision after seeing evidence that the first people to be vaccinated against Covid in January were now more susceptible of catching the virus due to fading antibody levels.

Israel follows Hungary and Turkey, which have already announced that they will begin offering a third dose of Covid vaccines to the elderly.

Nachman Ash, the director general of the Israeli health ministry, told healthcare providers to begin offering third doses from the start of next week, according to local media reports.

At the start of 2021, Israel's Covid vaccination programme became the fastest in the world, with the majority of the adult population given two doses within a matter of weeks.

Read more here: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/07/29/israel-offer-third-dose-covid-vaccines-amid-surge-delta-variant/

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