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Israel said on Sunday 2 million people will have received a two-dose Covid-19 vaccination by the end of January, a pace prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu boasts is the world’s fastest.
Starting on 19 December, when Netanyahu got his first jab, Israel launched an aggressive push to administer the vaccine made by US-German pharma alliance Pfizer-BioNTech.
Anne Longfield, the children’s commissioner for England, has spoken to the BBC News channel, saying: “The risk of school closures demands immediate action, and vaccination is part of that defence.”
Schools are facing more pressures because of local infection rates, the new variant and there is some doubt about whether the level of infection is growing in older children, she said.
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