With 81 percent of Israel’s adult population fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and the number of reported SARS-CoV-2 infections down to under 20 cases per day, the Israeli government lifted most COVID-19-related restrictions in the country on June 1, 2021
Everything seemed to be going Israel’s way up until around the third week in June when there were 227 new coronavirus cases, and that 70 percent of new coronavirus cases had been caused by the Delta variant of the virus
An estimated 40-50 percent of the new coronavirus infections in Israel are in people who have already been vaccinated for COVID-19
