Wed Jan 26, 2022 – 2:58 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Israel now leads the entire world in new daily reported COVID-19 cases per capita, despite also being one of the most aggressive in vaccinating its population.
The Times of Israel reports that, as of January 20, Israel reached the milestone according to numbers from Our World in Data. Almost 65,000 Israelis tested positive on Wednesday, raising the total number of active infections to more than 400,000.
Prof. Eran Segal of the Rehovot-based Weizmann Institute qualified the findings by noting that Israel also conducts more daily testing relative to its population size than most countries, meaning other nations may have more cases that go unrecorded.
Still, the country’s dubious distinction provides further ammunition to those questioning its aggressive vaccination campaign. Israel is the first country to administer second boosters, and fourth overall doses, to those over age sixty.
Last week, Prof. Gili Regev-Yochay of Sheba Medical Center admitted that the COVID shots are “not good enough” to stop transmission of COVID’s omicron variant, which is now thought to be the dominant strain. Previous reporting indicates that they struggled against previous variants, as well, with The Daily Beast
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