Israel's vaccination drive tops 10% of population

Israel expects to administer the vaccine to two million people by the end of the month.
An Arab Israeli woman leaves after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in the northern Arab Israeli city of Umm al Fahm , on January 4, 2021. - Israel said Sunday two million people will have received a two-dose Covid-19 vaccination by the end of January, a pace Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts is the world's fastest. Health Ministry Director General Hezi Levy said that because of the enthusiastic takeup, Israel would be easing the speed of vaccination to eke out stocks. (Photo b
An Arab Israeli woman leaves after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine at Clalit Health Services, in the northern Arab Israeli city of Umm al Fahm, on Jan. 4, 2021. - JACK GUEZ/AFP via Getty Images
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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. 

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