Occupied Palestine, SAEDNEWS, Dec. 20: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has received a COVID-19 vaccine jab, kicking off a national roll-out over the coming days. Netanyahu, 71, and his health minister were injected on Saturday with the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine live on TV at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan, near Tel Aviv.
“I asked to be vaccinated first, together with Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, to serve as personal examples and encourage you to be vaccinated,” Netanyahu told the television audience.
“This is a very moving moment,” he said, adding businesses would soon be able to resume work and people will be able to earn a living as before.The arrival of the Pfizer vaccine, and later on, the one from Moderna, marked “the beginning of the end”, he said. Netanyahu and Edelstein must each receive a booster shot in three weeks for optimal protection from the coronavirus.
The vaccine will be rolled out at 10 hospitals and vaccination centres around Israel for healthcare workers from Sunday, according to the health ministry (Source: AlJazeera).
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