- 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
- Fears Britain could now follow suit has led to growing calls for a mass booster vaccine rollout this winter
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.
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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