Georgia delivers 10,000 doses of extra flu vaccine to Russian-occupied region of Abkhazia
The number of applications for flu vaccination was not high in Georgia and the country had extra vaccines in stock, which were given to Abkhazia.
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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.
Gamkrelidze said that the number of applications for flu vaccination was not high in Georgia and the country had extra vaccines in stock, which were given to Abkhazia.
We bought 235,000 flu vaccines, but the amount of flu vaccine was much higher, because the private sector had purchased 60,000-70,000 doses. 160,000 doses have been used. We transferred 10,000 doses to Abkhazia. Military staff and risk groups were also vaccinated”, Gamkrelidze said.
He said that teachers are included in the risk groups and they can be vaccinated.
Starting today the Georgian government will ensure 20,000 daily coronavirus tests around the country to reveal new infections and curb the spread of the virus in a timely fashion. Large-scale testing will continue until February 1, 2021. Tests conducted by private clinics and labs will be added to the 20,000 tests. Rapid tests will be actively used in the process,” said the government, adding that testing will also ensure proper hospitalisation of critical patients.
The Georgian Health Ministry has announced that pregnant women and socially vulnerable individuals will receive antiviral medication Tamiflu free of charge upon doctor’s prescription.
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.
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.
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.