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Some 80,000 Israelis have so far signed up with health providers to receive the coronavirus vaccine, Channel 13 news reports.
After vaccines were made available to health care workers today, citizens over the age of 60 can begin getting shots tomorrow.
The Health Ministry is hoping to be able to administer up to 60,000 vaccines a day, when shots are opened to the general public.
Channel 13, however, says that health providers are worried that they will not receive enough vaccines fast enough. I m proud to work at The Times of Israel
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A meeting of the coronavirus cabinet concludes without making any decisions about whether to apply local restrictions aimed at halting rising infection rates with ministers divided on what limitations should be ordered, how broad they should be, and when to apply them.
On the agenda was limiting commerce, street store operations, markets, reducing public transport by 50 percent, and closing schools in red and orange cities those falling into the top two categories of a color-coding scheme indicating virus infection rates. The education closure would exclude kindergartens and students up to grade 4.
However, ministers failed to agree on what restrictions should be applied and in what format, or when to apply them, according to leaks of the meeting reported by Hebrew media.