Head of NCDC: ‘third dose of Covid-19 vaccine will likely be needed to build stronger artificial immunity’
A third dose of Covid-19 vaccines will likely be needed to build stronger artificial immunity in the population, Head of the National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze said today. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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A third dose of Covid-19 vaccines will likely be needed to build stronger artificial immunity in the population, Head of the National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze said today.
A lot of international scientific research is underway in order to determine whether a third dose of the vaccine is needed to build stronger artificial immunity in the population. Most likely a booster dose will be needed. Scientists also think that the coronavirus infection may become a seasonal infection that will need one injection per year”, said Gamkrelidze.
Gamkrelidze said as of yet there is no set period within which the third booster dose to be taken.
Large-scale Covid vaccination sites will be set up in Tbilisi, Rustavi, Kutaisi and Batumi, where up to 2,000 people will be vaccinated against Covid-19 per day, Head of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze announced earlier today.
Based on the state webpage stopcov.ge, a total of 105,500 individuals have been vaccinated against Covid-19 as of May 21 throughout Georgia.
Fully vaccinated Georgian citizens are already able to get digital Covid certificates including QR codes to sweep away barriers on travel between countries, Deputy Head of Georgia’s National Centre for Disease Control Paata Imnadze told Formula TV yesterday.
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.
Covid-19 tests have revealed 769 new cases of the virus in Georgia over the past 24 hours, with 17 deaths from infections.
Covid-19 tests carried out in Georgia over the past 24 hours revealed 521 cases of the virus, with 12 deaths and 911 recoveries.
Two new confirmed cases of the Indian strain of Covid-19 virus have been identified in Georgia, National Centre for Disease Control head Amiran Gamkrelidze said on Saturday.