Coronavirus coordinator Prof. Nachman Ash estimated in a Reshet Bet interview that this time the exit from lockdown will be significantly affected by vaccination.He said, "Vaccination itself, especially of the at-risk population, will allow us to get out quickly without having an impact In severe morbidity. The lockdown is expected to last 3-4 weeks."

J'lem police officers were recorded brutally beating right-wing activists protesting the death of 16-year-old Bat Ayin teen Ahuvya Sandak.

A senior Palestinian Authority (PA) health official announced In Saturday that the PA would receive the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines within two weeks, the Xinhua news agency reported.The official, Kamal al-Shakhra, told a news briefing in Ramallah that the PA "ministry of health" has contacted the World Health Organization (WHO) to ensure that Palestinian Arabs receive vaccines.

The newspaper Israel Hayom reports this morning that it seems that the chances of Foreign Minister Gabi Ashkenazi remaining in Blue and White are very low.According to the report, the scenario in which the Foreign Minister will remain in Blue and White is Ine in which Gantz will decide to retire, or alternatively, will offer Ashkenazi the lead and will in fact become his deputy. This idea was reportedly heard by several ministers and MKs of the party.

A Boston doctor suffered a serious allergic reaction to Moderna"s COVID-19 vaccine, the first of its kind documented, a report said Friday.Dr. Hossein Sadrzadeh, a geriatric Incologist at Boston Medical Center, became dizzy and felt his heart racing minutes after receiving the vaccine In Thursday, he told The New York Times.

Education Ministry deputy director and emergency and security department senior director Aryeh Mor said in a Knesset Education Committee discussion that most of the morbidity is in the haredi education sector."As we described, most of the increase in morbidity is in yeshivot and boarding schools in the haredi sector," Mor told the committee. "There's been a stabilization in the general sector in the last two weeks. This is the situation. Most of the exceptional events are in the haredi sector in yeshivot - some in supervised educational institutions and some in unsupervised educational institutions."

NY health commissioner says clinics may have administered doses to members of the public “contrary to the state’s plan.”

According to a CNN report, 1 in 1,000 Americans have died from Covid-19 since the first reported infection in the US in January 2020.US population is approx. 330,750,000 and the death toll has reached 331,116 according to data from Johns Hopkins University.