UNICEF Representative in Georgia receives coronavirus vaccine
Ghassan Khalil has received the coronavirus vaccine.in Akhaltsikhe within the national immunisation plan. Photo: UNICEF Georgia/Facebook
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UNICEF Representative in Georgia Ghassan Khalil has received the coronavirus vaccine.
Vaccination is crucial in combating this pandemic which is affecting every one of us and children as well. No one is safe until everyone is safe”, he said.
UNICEF Georgia has released Ghassan Khalil's video address:
“No one is safe, until everyone is safe” – says Ghassan Khalil, UNICEF Representative in Georgia #VaccinesWork pic.twitter.com/Xp841gwOGF
— UNICEF Georgia (@unicefgeorgia) May 15, 2021
Georgia started coronavirus vaccination in mid-March when the country received the first 43,200 doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine with the support of UNICEF.
As of now, Georgia is using AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Sinopharm vaccines for certain groups of people. Those eligible for vaccination can register at booking.moh.gov.ge.
Georgia has received the 100,000 doses of the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine earlier today. However, Sinopharm vaccination will not start until it received approval from the World Health Organisation.
Vaccination with Pfizer will be allowed in four clinics of Tbilisi: Republican Hospital, Bokeria clinic, Caucasus Medical Centre and Amtel hospital, in two clinics of Kutaisi and in Batumi Republican Hospital in the Adjara region. Individuals receiving either the AstraZeneca or Pfizer vaccines against Covid-19 will have to stay at clinics for 45 minutes, instead of 30 minutes to be observed if there are any adverse effects.
The 43,200 doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine has arrived in Georgia this morning. UNICEF, which has supported the Government of Georgia in procuring the Covid-19 vaccines, has announced that the plane has already landed at Tbilisi International Airport.
Head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze has received the Chinese Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine live on TV earlier today. Georgia received 100,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, which is an inactivated vaccine, earlier in April. The vaccine has around a 78% efficacy rate and is likely to be approved by the World Health Organisation by the end of this week. Gamkrelidze stated that ‘it is symbolic I was the first who received the vaccine in Georgia,’ adding that that the vaccine has already been used in 45 foreign states.
Georgia has reported 504 new cases of coronavirus, 2,038 recoveries and 27 deaths in the past 24 hours. In total, 11,665 tests have been conducted around the country of which 6,137 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 5,528 were PCR tests.
The Georgian government is negotiating with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers and is going to import an additional one million doses of Pfizer in June or July, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said today.