The Health Ministry is gathering Israeli celebrities who agree to get a coronavirus vaccine in front of cameras as part of an effort to encourage people to get inoculated and battle online disinformation about the vaccine, Channel 13 says.
The celebs include artists, journalists and others, the report says.
The report adds that the first to get the vaccine will be Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Reuven Rivlin, Health Minister Yuli Edelstein, and managers of hospitals and HMOs.
It also says that senior Health Ministry officials have called for a halt to efforts to develop an Israeli-made vaccine, since “there’s no point in it if we vaccinate several millions in a few months.”
The network cites officials in the Defense Ministry — whose Biological Institute is developing the vaccine — as being surprised to hear the development through media reports, arguing that there is no reason to scrap all the work that has been done.
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