The Israeli Ministry of Health announced on the 6th that it will vaccinate children aged 6 months to 5 years with covid-19 vaccine, and the vaccination work is expected to start in early August. Nahman Ashe, director general of the Ministry of health, said on the same day that he had approved the recommendations of the expert group on vaccinating children aged 6 months to 5 years with covid-19, especially children with serious heart disease, chronic diseases and taking drugs that affect the immune system. According to the Ministry of health, the experts of the expert group agreed that covid-19 vaccine was highly safe for children aged 6 months to 5 years. Israeli media reported on the 6th that the Israeli Ministry of health has begun to purchase vaccines for children of this age group, which are expected to arrive in the next few weeks and begin vaccination in early August. Last November, Israel began vaccinating children aged 5 to 11 with covid-19. Up to now, about 23% of the 1million children aged 5 to 11 in the country have been vaccinated with covid-19. Recently, due to the spread of the Omicron variant, the Israeli epidemic rebounded and the number of infected people surged. On the 6th, Israel reported 12019 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours; 55 covid-19 deaths have been reported in the past seven days. Experts recently pointed out that the country is ushering in the sixth wave of COVID-19. (Xinhua News Agency)