What was the world’s most vaccinated country has broken another record – for the most new Covid-19 cases per million people, and it has experts worried.
One of the most vaccinated countries on Earth has this week seen its highest number of coronavirus cases ever.
Israel, the poster child for vaccination, recorded more new Covid-19 infections on Wednesday than at the peak of its second wave when few in the country of nine million were even jabbed.
The nation – wholly dependent on Pfizer – has a rolling average of 9300 daily cases. Where it once broke vaccination records, Israel has now broken a grim new record – the country with the highest seven day average of new cases per million.
Infectious diseases experts have said Israel may prove that the effectiveness of vaccines do indeed wane over time.
“This is a very clear warning sign for the rest of the world,” Dr Ran Balicer of Clalit Health Services, one of Israel’s main healthcare providers, told Science magazine…