Israel is now the world's Covid hotspot: Cases soar despite country's trail-blazing vaccine roll-out

- Israel recorded 1,892 cases per million people on Wednesday — nearly 0.2% of entire population in single day
- Despite being one of the most vaccinated nations in world, country is in midst of an unprecedented new wave

Israel has become the Covid capital of the world despite leading the charge on vaccines, in a clear warning sign that Britain, the US and other highly-immunised nations are still vulnerable to another wave.

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Stats compiled by Oxford University-backed research team Our World in Data shows there were a record 1,892 Covid cases per million people in Israel on Wednesday — nearly 0.2 per cent of the entire population in a single day.

That was significantly higher than second worst-hit Mongolia, where the rate was 1,119 per million, and double the figures for Kosovo (980), Georgia (976) and Montenegro (909), which rounded out the top five.

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The figure only looks at one day's worth of tests and Israel's high rate is thought to have been driven up by a huge testing push ahead of schools reopening there.

But the country has consistently reported some of the highest infection rates in the world since mid-August amid an unprecedented third wave, despite being one of the most vaccinated nations in the world.

For comparison, 522 people per million in the UK tested positive yesterday and the figure was closer to 595 in the US. It suggests protection gained from vaccines is starting to buckle in the face of the highly-transmissible Delta variant.

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Israel is now the world's Covid hotspot: Cases soar despite country's trail-blazing vaccine roll-out

Israel is now the world's Covid hotspot: Cases soar despite country's trail-blazing vaccine roll-out

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