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Health Minister says school COVID vaccine drive to expand tenfold
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Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz gives a press conference at Soroka Medical Center in the southern city of Beersheba, on November 30, 2021. (Flash90)
Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz tells Channel 12 news that next week the number of stations near schools where children can get their COVID-19 vaccination will increase tenfold.
“If until now there were 50 locations [outside schools], then it will be 500 next week every day,” Horowitz says.
Separately he says that the ministry is considering vaccinating the elderly population with a fourth dose, pending further research on such a move.
Horowitz adds the Omicron variant of the coronavirus is “multiplying a worrying rate,” in Israel.
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