Israel would expand the eligibility to receive a coronavirus vaccine booster shot by lowering the age to anyone over 50, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said.
Bennett said the decision to offer a third shot to younger adults who were already fully vaccinated came from the advice from a team of experts advising the government.
Israel announced in July that it would become the first country in the world to offer a wide swath of its population, anyone over the age of 60 a booster.
So far, about 750,000 seniors had received that shot.
Now, in addition to lowering the age of eligibility to 50, people working in medical professions would also be allowed to get a booster starting on Friday.
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Israel was using the vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech.
Bennett said that this was the right course of action in the fight against the fast-spreading Delta variant.
Israel recently recorded nearly 6,000 new infections daily.
The number of patients in critical condition was also at its highest level in six months, with more than 400.
So far, just over 58 per cent of the population of about 6.4 million has been fully vaccinated.
