“Against Delta variant Pfizer vaccine significantly less effective”

The efficacy of Pfizer’s Delta variant vaccine is “weaker” than health officials hoped. This was stated by Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett who added: “We do not know exactly to what extent the vaccine helps, but it is significantly less”. The prime minister reads the ‘Jerusalem Post’ held a meeting with top health officials and the minister to discuss next steps for managing the virus in light of numbers in Israel (855 cases on Friday) and highlighted how the Delta mutation is making “a leap forward all over the world, even in vaccinated countries like Britain, Israel and the United States.” “In Britain, – said Bennett – in recent days, we have seen an increase in the number of children who are hospitalized on a daily basis. This is a development that we are aware of: we are addressing it rationally and responsibly. ”The highest number of coronavirus cases since March was diagnosed on Thursday, with 1.52% of tests being positive, he said. the Ministry of Health in an announcement on Friday.