It has become the star of the vaccination world. Before Australia has put a single jab in a single arm, Israel has already managed to administer 45 per cent of its population with at least one vaccination vial.
That’s more than double the rate of the UK – which is having a bad pandemic but a good vaccination rollout – and other high inoculation nations including the US, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.
But public health watchers in Israel are now beginning to fret. While take up of the vaccination was initially sky high, fewer and fewer people are now turning up each day for their shot.
“At the beginning of the campaign we got used to inoculating between 100,000 and 120,000 people per day, and in the last few days we are barely reaching half of those figures,” Kalanit Kaye, the manager of vaccinations at healthcare provider Clalit Health Services told the Times of Israel.
“We are prepared, our centres are big and accessible, vaccines are being given for free, so I…