coronavirus vaccines to teenagers Saturday to target a demographic suspected of accelerating the country's Covid-19 outbreak.Israel has approved the Covid-19 vaccine for anyone over 16, as it pushed ahead with its inoculation drive, with a quarter of the population now vaccinated, health officials said.
The country won't inoculate anyone under that age.With the capacity to handle about 2 lakh people a day, Israel's health authorities are able to vaccinate the country's approximately 3 lakh 16- to 18-year-olds high-school students in short order, but the challenge will be to ensure everyone shows up for a shot.Since the rollout of Covid-19 vaccinations one month ago, over 2.5 million of Israel's nine-million-strong population have been.