(JNS) Israel surpassed the 1 million mark in the number of people who have received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. As of Monday morning, 1,106, 506 people had received the two doses, representing 12.45 percent of the population, according to the Ministry of Health.

Nearly 2.6 million Israelis had been vaccinated with the first dose of the vaccine, or 29.2 percent of the population.

On Friday, KSM Maccabi Research and Innovation Center released a study that indicated a “significant decrease” in the number of coronavirus infections in the over-60 population, who had been vaccinated in late December with the first dose and then again mid-January with the second dose. The numbers were tallied 23 days after the first vaccination (two days after the second dose was administered). The study also found that hospitalizations for the group also decreased by slightly more than 60 percent in the same time period.

Eighty percent of the over-60 population in Israel has been vaccinated, with close to 52 percent already having received the second dose.

A separate study conducted earlier by Tel Aviv’s Sheba Medical Center at Tel HaShomer found that more than 98 percent of people who received both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have developed antibodies that neutralize the virus—some even higher than the level of antibodies measured in recovered COVID-19 patients who had been seriously ill.