Israel vaccines children up to 5 years old against Covid

Israel has launched the Covid-19 vaccine for children aged 5 to 11 years. It has become one of the few countries to inoculate young children to try to avoid another pandemic wave.

During the summer, Israel experienced a surge in coronavirus infections stimulated by delta mutants and launched one of the earliest campaigns for booster shots.

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett wrote on Facebook that when the infection begins to reoccur, about half of the recently confirmed cases among children under the age of 11 are experiencing a “children’s wave.”

Authorities had already begun to immunize people between the ages of 12 and 17, but after a trial by Pfizer and recommendations from the Israeli Commission of Scientists, they decided to lower the age threshold.

The campaign for young minors was set to officially launch today, but the dose had already been administered by last night.

“Currently, in the midst of an epidemic, vaccination is the best tool to protect children,” said Heli Nave, who gives children Pfizer-BioNTech jabs from outside the clinic.

She said, “It’s never an easy decision,” but the availability of data from the United States, which began immunizing children aged 5 to 11 earlier this month, convinced her.

His office announced that the prime minister will vaccinate his youngest child this morning.

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Israel was one of the first countries to launch a vaccine against the coronavirus last year, thanks to a contract with Pfizer that granted access to millions of doses in exchange for data on vaccine efficacy.

Currently, more than 5.7 million of the country’s 9 million people are fully vaccinated.

India records the smallest increase in Covid-19 cases in 543 days despite the festival

India today reported 7,579 new coronavirus infections. This is the smallest increase in a year and a half, despite the large festival gatherings of the last few weeks, thanks to the increase in antibodies due to vaccination and previous infections.

The 1.35 billion nation celebrated the Durga Pjar in October and the Diwali Festival this month. During that time, millions of people shopped, traveled, and met their families with almost no masks. Masks are rarely worn except in big cities.

“There is no surge even after the Diwali festival,” said MD Gupte, a former director of the state-run National Institute of Epidemiology, said it was primarily due to the presence of antibodies in the majority of Indians due to natural infections. rice field.

“I think we are much safer now.”

According to a government survey, it is estimated that nearly 70% of Indians will be naturally infected by July after a record increase in infections and deaths in April and May.

So far, 81% of India’s 944 million adults have been vaccinated at least once and 43% have been vaccinated twice. Vaccinations for people under the age of 18 have not yet begun.

India reports a total of 34.5 million Covid-19 cases, second only to the United States. The number of deaths from Covid in India has increased by 236 over the past 24 hours to 466,147.

Daily testing has also declined, falling below 1 million yesterday compared to over 2 million capacities.

French Interior Minister: Guadeloupe’s security situation remains very difficult

The French Interior Minister said the situation was “extremely difficult” in Guadeloupe, where concerns arose last week over the Covid-19 curb imposed by Paris, despite Prime Minister Jean Castex seeking calm in France’s overseas territories. “It remains.”

“There are still scenes of extreme violence in which police are shot with real ammunition,” Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin told the French Interior Minister.

General strikes entered the second week yesterday, and many stores were looted at night, even though Dermanin said that 200 additional police officers stationed after Sunday helped some of the anxiety. It remained closed afterwards.

French Foreign Minister Sebastian Le Corne also said on television in France 2 that he and other members of the government would go to Guadeloupe to investigate the situation.

Forced vaccination touched the nerves of a group of descendants of slaves who worked on a French sugar plantation. During the 20th century, many people in Guadeloupe were also systematically exposed to the toxic pesticides used in banana plantations.

Trade unions have launched a strike this week on the neighboring French Caribbean island of Martinique.

The Caribbean has been hit by a new wave of coronavirus infections that are causing blockades, flight cancellations, and overwhelming hospitals, as tourism has begun to show signs of recovery.