Israel's approval of new crown vaccines from 6 months to 5 years old

Xinhua News Agency, Jerusalem, July 6th (Reporter Lu Yingxu Wang Zhuolun) The Ministry of Health of Israel announced on the 6th that it will be vaccinated for children from 6 months to 5 years old. The vaccination work is expected to begin in early August.

On the day of the Director -General of the Ministry of Health, Nahman Ash said that he has approved the expert group's suggestion on the new crown vaccine for children from 6 months to 5 years old. It is specially recommended Children vaccinate the vaccine.

According to the Ministry of Health, the expert group agreed that the new crown vaccine had high safety for children from 6 months to 5 years old.

The Israeli media reported on the 6th that the Ministry of Health has begun to purchase vaccines for children in this age. It is expected to arrive in the next few weeks and start vaccination in early August.

In November last year, Israel began to vaccinate new crown vaccines from 5 to 11 years old. As of now, about 23%of the country's 15 -year -old children from 15 to 11 years old have vaccinated new crown vaccines.

Recently, due to the spread of Omikon's mutant strains, the Israeli epidemic rebounded, and the number of infections surged. On the 6th, Israeli reported 12019 newly confirmed cases in the past 24 hours; 55 cases of new crown death cases reported in the past seven days. Experts have recently pointed out that the country is ushered in the sixth wave of new crown epidemic.

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