Highly Vaccinated Israel Is Seeing A Dramatic Surge In New COVID Cases. Here’s Why

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Medics in Jerusalem transfer a COVID-19 patient to Hadassah Hospital Ein Kerem. Many hospitals in Israel are at full capacity following a sharp increase in coronavirus infections.  Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images Israel was the first country on Earth to … Read More

Covid-19 sickness dropped 95.8% after Pfizer vaccine, Israel Health Ministry says

The vaccine was also 98% effective in preventing fever or breathing problems and 98.9% effective in preventing hospitalisations and death, the ministry said. A foreign worker receives her first dose of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in … Read More

Decline in coronavirus pandemic in Israel continues

Number of active coronavirus cases in Israel falls to lowest level since March, with just 24 new cases in 24 hours. Recovering coronavirus patient – iStock The number of active cases of the novel coronavirus in Israel continued to decline … Read More

Italy approves experimental Israeli drug used to treat hospitalized corona patients

The drug, called opaganib, was designed to have anti-cancer, anti-viral and anti-inflammatory properties. It has undergone testing but has yet to be approved for general use. Magen David Adom workers wearing protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus … Read More

Thousands of measles cases reported after outbreaks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv

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Members of a UK Strictly Orthodox community, who were not immunised, also reported to have caught the disease while visiting Israel. The measles-rubella vaccine has been rejected by some parents (Photo: Getty Images)  A major outbreak of measles in Israel has … Read More