Seasonal flu infection level increases in Georgia
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The amount of patients applying hospitals with flu symptoms have increased in the second week of January, announced the Head of National Disease Control Centre, Amiran Gamkrelidze today.
Gamkrelidze said that the morbidity rate of seasonal influenza is 219 in 100,000 people.
The flu season lasts until the end of March, or, maybe, until the mid-April, so we should not distract”, said Gamkrelidze.
The number of patients treated in the hospitals with severe respiratory infections has increased from 22 to 25,3 percent.
The Georgian Health Ministry announced that pregnant women and members of vulnerable groups will receive the antiviral medication Tamiflu free of charge with a doctor’s prescription.
Gamkrelidze said that the best method of protection is vaccination. 96,900 individuals have already been vaccinated and there is sufficient supply of the vaccine.
Seasonal influenza will peak between the end of January and February, announced officials from G. Zhvania Academic Clinic of Pediatry today.
A 30-year-old woman has died in Georgia’s western town of Chiatura yesterday, with the cause of death being an alleged viral disease.
Amiran Gamkrelidze, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control and Public Health (NCDC), announced that there is no risk of a flu epidemic in Georgia.
Georgia will purchase double amount of anti-flu vaccines for 2019-2020 and this will be 80,000 vaccines instead of the 41,000 which were purchased for 2018-2019, head of the National Disease Control Centre Amiran Gamkrelidze has told Netgazeti.
The Georgian government has delivered 10,000 doses of extra flu vaccine to Georgia's Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia, announces the Head of the National Center for Disease Control, Amiran Gamkrelidze.
Only 95,000 doses of flu vaccine have been administered in Georgia since early October, though the government purchased 200,000 doses and encouraged at-risk groups and their families to receive the vaccine, head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze says.
Pregnant women, doctors, patients on dialysis, individuals with diabetes, HIV/AIDS and those in risk groups will receive vaccines against flu free of charge starting on Wednesday, the Georgian health ministry has announced.