Israel has already this week expanded a travel ban to countries including the United States, Germany, Italy, Turkey and Canada to try to curb the spread of the virus.
Israel announced that it will offer a fourth dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to people older than 60, amid concern about the spread of the omicron variant.
The decision follows the first known death in Israel of a patient with the omicron variant.
The official response for the decision to authorise booster shots was given by professor Dagan who is a professor of Pediatrics and Infectious Diseases at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev but his explanation only covered one side of the argument when he simply said “We all hoped it would not happen, but with time the immunity offered by the third dose is waning,” but did not address the risks of giving the fourth shot.
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