88 percent felt similar or better in the week after the booster vaccination, according to a survey by the health insurance company Clalit. This was confirmed by a spokeswoman for the cash register on Monday. Ten percent would have felt worse than after the second vaccination. Overall, 31 percent of those questioned reported at least one vaccination reaction, most of them pain at the injection site. According to its own information, the health insurance company has vaccinated more than 240,000 members for the third time. Around 4,500 people took part in the survey, it said. Nine percent of those surveyed said tiredness as a reaction to the third vaccination, and around six percent felt unwell. According to their own information, one percent took medical help because of the vaccination reaction.
Israel has been offering booster vaccinations for 60-year-olds and older for around a week – as the first country in the world. The background to this are figures from the ministry, according to which the effectiveness of the Biontech / Pfizer vaccination used in Israel has declined sharply since the beginning of June. However, government experts also criticize the fact that these figures on effectiveness were not scientifically collected.
The number of new corona infections reported in Israel within one day has been over 3,000 for around a week. On Monday morning, the Ministry of Health reported 3,372 new infections for the previous day. 360 corona patients are seriously ill. More than 58 percent of the approximately 9.4 million Israelis are fully vaccinated.
The vaccination campaign in Israel was very successful, especially at the beginning, it made rapid progress and caused an international stir. Prime Minister Naftali Bennett recently reported on more than a million Israelis who could be vaccinated but do not. On Sunday he explicitly called on the Arab minority to get vaccinated – the vaccination rate there was too low. Around 20 percent of the population are Arabs.
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