in Israel, more than 12,000 people have been infected after receiving the first dose

One of the government officials responsible for designing the vaccination strategy in Israel assured that the first dose of Pfizer is less effective than what the laboratory itself indicates and He warned that this may not protect against new strains of the virus.

So said Nachman Ash, who said many people were infected between the first and second dose of Pfizer vaccine.

According to the AJN Agency, the country’s health ministry has admitted that more than 12,400 people have tested positive for the coronavirus after receiving the vaccines. This includes 69 people who received the second dose.

Until, over 2 million Israelis received the first dose of Pfizer and over 400,000 the second.

From the lab, they say the vaccine, produced with BioNTech, is approximately 52% effective after the first doseand increases to about 95% a number of days after the second dose.

As the head of the public health department of the Ministry of Health, Sharon Alroy-Preis, reported, early information indicates that the vaccine slows new infections by 50%, about 14 days after the administration of the first of two injections, according to The Times of Israel.

The data, he said, is preliminary and is based on the results of COVID-19 tests among those who received the vaccine and those who did not.

At the same time, some Israeli organizations reported other somewhat contradictory data. According to figures released by Clalit, Israel’s largest health care provider, the likelihood of a person being infected with the coronavirus it decreased by 33% two weeks after being vaccinated.

During his conversations with health officials on Tuesday, Ash added that It was not certain that the vaccine could protect against the new strains of the coronavirus.

It is that a month after Israel’s vaccination campaign, the most advanced in the world, with more than 2 million people (representing almost 25% of its population)Health ministry officials expected a decrease in daily infections and severe cases, but that has yet to happen.

Experts blame the most contagious variants of the virus, especially the British strain, for the difficulty in reducing disease rates and easing the heavy burden on hospitals, despite border closures and mass vaccinations.

According to Hebrew media, the head of the vaccine strategy design said the British strain causes 30-40% of current infections and will become the dominant strain in Israel within weeks.

The Israeli Ministry of Health reported that on Monday sWe confirmed a record 10,021 infections in one day, bringing the total number of cases in the country since the start of the pandemic to 562,167, including 81,059 active cases.

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