Dr. Salman Zarka is also known as Israel’s “Covid Tsar”, the man through whose fingers all the strings of the fight against coronavirus run. 2.5 million Israelis have already received a third booster vaccination to contain the pandemic.
Now Zarka says: The population should be preparing for a fourth vaccination. The doctor mentioned this on Saturday in an interview with the public radio station Kan. This in order to keep up with new variants of the coronavirus.
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Corona won’t go away
Two thirds of the Israeli population have already been vaccinated with two doses. Nevertheless, the authorities expect a further increase in cases and hospital admissions in the autumn months. Israel, which was already the first country to consider three injections necessary for people at risk, should also be the first nation to administer a fourth Covid vaccination.
“In view of the fact that the virus is and will remain here, we also have to prepare for the fourth vaccination,” said Zarka. “This is our life from now on, in waves.” Zarka expects that booster vaccines, which fight new variants of the virus more effectively, should be available by the end of 2021 or beginning of 2022. Israel’s “Covid-Tsar” had previously stated that booster vaccinations may have to be carried out “once a year or every five to six months” in the future. (kes)