In Israel, vaccination against Covid for children aged 5 to 11 begins today. The start of the administration as decided by the government authorities and on the recommendation of the National Committee for the fight against Covid.

Salman Zarka, head of the Committee, spoke of "a day of celebration for children and parents who can now protect their children".

Israel is the second country in the world, after the US, to initiate this vaccination. Already yesterday the first doses were injected by the mutual services in some parts of the country after the arrival in recent days of Pfizer doses suitable for children.

According to those in charge, quoted by the media, for today there are 24,000 bookings for immunization, about 2.5% of this age group.

(Unioneonline / vl)

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