Third jabs given as part of a booster programme are beginning to dampen the latest Covid surge.
Israel's booster vaccination programme - offering a third shot to over-40s - has begun to show signs of success.
The country's own health leaders will be keeping a watchful eye on cases after schools reopened on 1 September, while next week, Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish new year, will see groups gathering.Although the country rolled out jabs quickly and take-up was relatively high, there are still a million people out of its roughly nine million overall population who are eligible for the vaccine and haven't taken it up.
But even without these groups being vaccinated, back in spring the level of coverage appeared to be enough to keep a lid on cases - so what changed?The more infectious Delta variant seems to have evaded part of the vaccine's protection against infection, although it is still highly effective against severe illness.
"That's what was driving the wave," he said - a conclusion drawn from careful analysis of the rates of infection in people vaccinated in different months. There are fierce debates over whether booster programmes should be rolled out when so many people around the world haven't even had one vaccine.
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