World-Leading Vaccine Push Augurs Return to Normal in Israel
People queue outside a Covid-19 mass vaccination center at Rabin Square in Tel Aviv.
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Israel’s world-leading vaccination campaign is poised to achieve what millions in the country and many more outside it have desperately sought for a year: a return to normal life.
In the six weeks since Israel began administering the second dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine, about 80% of those at highest risk have been inoculated. As the numbers have grown, hospitals have reported a steady decline in seriously ill coronavirus patients and the rate of overall spread.