Description
Added on the 09/11/2021 20:53:04 - Copyright : France 24 EN
Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett receives a booster shot of vaccine against the coronavirus, at Meir Medical Center in the central Israeli city of Kfar Saba. To try and contain a surge in coronavirus cases, authorities began administrating a booster shot. IMAGES
Jerusalem, Aug 1 (EFE/EPA).- Israel on Sunday started offering a third shot of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to people aged over 60, as part of an effort to slow down the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant. (Camera: ABIR SULTAN). SHOT LIST: MEDICAL WORKERS INOCULATE THE OVER-60S WITH A THIRD SHOT OF COVID-19 VACCINE IN JERUSALEM, ISRAEL.
In less than three months, Israel expects to have immunized all its citizens who are over 16 against the novel coronavirus. Business Insider reports achieving that goal would likely make Israel the world's first to immunize the vast majority of its population. Israel has far outpaced the rest of the world with its vaccination campaign. In fact, it has already administered the first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine to about one in five of its citizens. Last week, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu announced a deal with Pfizer to secure enough doses to immunize its adult population by the end of March.
Brasilia, Oct 19 (EFE).-The Brazilian government announced Monday that it had obtained "positive results" in an "early" treatment against COVID-19, through the application of the antiparasitic nitazoxanide in patients who have the infectious disease in its initial phase.(Camera: ALEX MIRKHAM)SHOT LIST: B-ROLL OF THE ACT IN WHICH THE STUDY WAS PRESENTED.SOUND BITES: PATRÍCIA ROCCO, COORDINATOR OF THE STUDY ON TREATMENT FOR COVID-19; MARCOS PONTES, MINISTER OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AND JAIR BOLSONARO, PRESIDENT OF BRAZIL (IN PORTUGUESE)PATRICIA ROCCO:"The group discovered that nitazoxanide could reduce the viral load without damaging the cells."MARCOS PONTES:"Remembering that science is the only weapon we have to fight the virus"."What I can say is that now we have a scientifically proven medication that can reduce the viral load. This means, in practice, that is reduces the contagion. People who take the medication... They are tested first, they discover Covid, they take medicines the first days. This reduces the viral load of that person, it reduces the capacity of spread and furthermore, it reduces the probability of someone presenting symptoms, going to the hospital and dying."JAIR BOLSONARO:"The vaccine against Covid, as it pertains to the Ministry of Health to define this topic, will not be mandatory.""When it comes to life, it is the most important thing, and we work that way. We are not afraid to expose ourselves."
San Sebastián (Spain), Oct 18 (EFE) .- The Basque Health Service-Osakidetza has purchased more than 650,000 vaccines for this year's flu campaign, which begins with risk groups and will be open to the general population as of next November 15.FOOTAGE OF VACCINATION PROCESS IN SAN SEBASTIAN, SPAIN
|
Support : Technical 
- Content 
- Editors 
