Experts from Israel’s health ministry arrived in the Philippines on June 20 to share their country’s best practices on the deployment of Covid-19 vaccines.

National Taskforce Against Covid-19 chief implementer and vaccine czar Carlito Galvez III welcomed Ichilov Medical Centre deputy director-general Avraham Ben Zaken, Healthcare Policy and Innovation consultant Dafna Segol and Salomon Levid & Elstein Ltd logistics and operations manager Adam Nicholas, who arrived at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport in Metro Manila at around 4:15pm (0815 GMT).

“Their arrival in the Philippines will help us fine-tune our vaccination roll-out,” Galvez said in a statement. “We want to learn from the best practices being implemented in Israel and hopefully, replicate and use them in crafting our country’s policies.”

Galvez said among the topics to be discussed during the consultation meeting are efficient vaccine roll-out, safe handling of vaccines, and improving public uptake.

The Israeli delegation, who will stay in the country until June 25, will meet with some of the country’s top medical experts, as well as visit some of the country’s vaccination sites.

Israel has the most number of fully vaccinated individuals, with 59 per cent of its citizens having received two doses of vaccines as of June 19, according to the official data collated by Our World in Data.

PHILIPPINE DAILY INQUIRER/ASIA NEWS NETWORK