JERUSALEM, April 14( Xinhua)--A new Israeli-led study has found that the fourth dose of COVID-19 vaccine is effective for protecting people who are 60 and older, Israel's largest healthcare organization Clalit said on Thursday. The study found that a fourth dose can reduce the possibilities of symptomatic infection, hospitalization, serious illness and mortality among the elders, Clalit noted.In the study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Clalit researchers and their colleagues

They say the differing approaches are based on the same realization that the booster is the right way to go, and expect the U.S. and other countries to expand their campaigns in the coming months.“ The decision reinforced our results that the third dose is safe, ” said Dr.... Nadav Davidovitch, head of the school of public health at Israel’s Ben-Gurion University and chairman of the country’s association of public health physicians.... It has also purchased large quantities of the Moderna and

Travelers wearing protective face masks arrive at the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov.... It also approved use of the Shin Bet internal security agency's controversial phone monitoring technology to perform contact tracing of individuals confirmed with the new omicron variant of coronavirus in Israel.... " Restrictions on the country's borders is not an easy step, but it's a temporary and necessary step," he said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting....

The Delta variant, first identified in India, now makes up about 90 per cent of cases." We estimate that we won't reach high waves of severe cases like in previous waves," the health ministry's director-general, Dr Nachman Ash, said last week.... But our nature is to survive," said Dr Gadi Segal, head of the coronavirus ward at Sheba Medical Centre near Tel Aviv.... Join ST's Telegram channel here and get the latest breaking news delivered to you. Topics: Facebook WhatsApp Twitter More Whatsap

The landmark study was carried out by the Clalit Research Institute in Ramat Gan, Israel, in collaboration with Harvard University in the US.... The study's authors analysed a global database of more than 1.4 million health records to assess the efficacy of the Pfizer/ BioNTech booster shot....

18, when 10, 118 new cases were detected, Israel's record for the pandemic.In between, Israel led one of the world's fastest vaccination drives that seemed to turn the tide on the pandemic.... It posted a watermelon popsicle over a photo of Tel Aviv's seaside skyline. Not many tourists, as it turns out.... The same day, the government registered 125 new cases, more than double the previous day's count of 49, a snapshot of the spike that's continued since then. The government soon indefinitely

Travelers walk with their luggage in the Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel, Sunday, Nov.... A raft of curbs being imposed by nations around the world as they scramble to slow the variant's spread also grew, with Israel deciding Sunday to bar entry to foreign nationals in the toughest move so far.... Confirmed or suspected cases of the new variant have already emerged in several European countries, in Israel and in Hong Kong, just days after it was identified by researchers in South Afri

Confirmed or suspected cases of thenew varianthave already emerged in several European countries, in Israel and in Hong Kong, just days after it was identified by researchers in South Africa.... They were immediately put into isolation, most at a nearby hotel, while sequencing was carried out.... Israel on Sunday approved barring entry to foreign nationals and the use of controversial technology for contact tracing as part of its efforts to clamp down on a new coronavirus variant....