Israel's vaccination drive tops 10% of population
Israel expects to administer the vaccine to two million people by the end of the month.
Israel leads the world in per capita COVID-19 vaccinations, with doses administered to more than 10% of the country in just two weeks.
Health officials in Israel say two million people — more than a fifth of the population — will have received the two-dose Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine by the end of the month. Health Minister Yuli Edelstein said on Monday that 1,224,000 shots have been administered so far, most of them to the elderly.
In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Edelstein credited the vaccination drive’s success with the country’s highly digitized health care system. Under Israeli law, all citizens over the age of 18 must register with one of four HMOs.
“The health system is proving itself,” Edelstein told the newspaper.
