Covid booster jabs to be rolled out to over-60s

The prime minister said the country would offer a Covid booster shot to over-60s who have already been vaccinated. The announcement by Naftali Bennett makes Israel, which launched one of the world’s most successful vaccination drives earlier this year, the first country to offer a third dose of a western vaccine on a wide scale.

“Reality proves the vaccines are safe,” Bennett said in a televised address. “Reality also proves the vaccines protect against severe morbidity and death. And like the flu vaccine that needs to be renewed from time to time, it is the same in this case.”