Foreigners living in Georgia will be able to receive Covid-19 vaccine
Georgia will receive 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine donated by the US government on July 24 and people will be able to register starting tomorrow. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
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Foreigners living in Georgia will be able to receive Covid-19 vaccines, the Georgian Ministry of Labour and Health announced earlier today.
The following groups of foreign individuals will be able to receive the coronavirus vaccine:
- Foreign citizens / stateless people who legally reside in Georgia (whose legal presence is confirmed by a visa, residence permit or visa-free regime), who have been in Georgia and at least three months have passed since their entry.
- Foreign citizens and their family members who reside in Georgia within the framework of the state programme 'Remotely from Georgia.’
- Foreign students studying in Georgia (who were not able to leave the country) based on the list submitted by an educational institution.
- Foreign employees (their family members) of diplomatic missions, consulate institutions, international organizations which are accredited in Georgia.
- Residents of the occupied territories of Georgia, regardless of their citizenship, as well as individuals (their family members) who are working on projects funded by diplomatic missions and international donor organizations in the occupied territories.
- Individuals in penitentiary institutions, despite the lack of an official identification document.
- Foreigners whose family members (child, parent, spouse) are citizens of Georgia.
Georgia has reported 2,460 new cases of coronavirus and 20 deaths in the past 24 hours.
Georgia will receive 500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine donated by the US government on July 24 and people will be able to register starting tomorrow on the website https://booking.moh.gov.ge.
The Covid-19 Delta variant amounts to almost half of new cases based on the data of the US-founded Lugar lab in Tbilisi, Head of Georgia's National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) Amiran Gamkrelidze stated earlier today. He also noted that the share of children in the daily coronavirus infection rate is 10-12 per cent.
Registration for the first dose of Pfizer vaccine will start tomorrow and the Minister of Health Ekaterine Tikaradze promises the registration website https://booking.moh.gov.ge will work without issue.
Ten percent of the infected individuals in Georgia are children, medical director of Iashvili Children Hospital Ivane Chkhaidze says. A group of Georgia health workers and scientists also note in a joint statement that ‘the only way to defeat the pandemic is through mass vaccination and adherence to safety measures’.
Georgia will receive 500,000 doses of Pfizer donated by the United States this Saturday, July 24. The Biden-Harris administration unveiled the strategy for global vaccine sharing ‘in service of ending the pandemic’ in early June.
500,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine donated by the United States have arrived in Georgia. Registration for the vaccine starts at 12 p.m. today via the booking.moh.gov.ge website. Meanwhile, Georgia has also received 15,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine donated by Lithuania.
Georgia has reported a total of 2,617 new cases of Covid-19 after conducting 43,394 tests over the last 24 hours. Out of the new 2,617 cases 1,485 were reported in Tbilisi.
19,375 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 9,807 of the 19,375 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 9,568 were PCR tests. The country has had 404,023 cases of coronavirus since February 26, 2020. 5.73 per cent of tested individuals had Covid-19 in the past 14 days.374,753 of the 404,023 patients have recovered, while 5,714 have died from the virus.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has stated that the government has no plans to reimpose coronavirus restrictions ‘because the state economy will not withstand them.’ He stated at today’s governmental meeting that the authorities have decided to ‘manage the epidemiological situation in the country rather than impose lockdown and other restrictions.’Garibashvili has urged the public to receive vaccines and to trust scientists and not various ‘anti-vaccine fake information and Facebook pages.’
Vaccinated individuals can receive a certification of their status for the purpose of traveling abroad at the medical institution where they received their jab, the Georgian Health Ministry stated today. The National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) will also issue a certificate of vaccination for Covid-19. At the request of the receiving country, this certificate can be verified by an apostille from the Public Service Development Agency.
Following the request of the Georgian government Serbia has recognised Covid-19 full vaccination certificate issued in Georgia, the Georgian Foreign Ministry reports.
Lebanon and Jordan have been added to the list of countries whose citizens can enter Georgia with negative PCR tests, the coordination council decided today. Citizens and residents of 40 countries can now enter Georgia with negative PCR tests, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs site says.
French Ambassador to Georgia Diego Colas has thanked the Georgian government for including foreigners in the vaccination against coronavirus earlier today. Foreigners living in Georgia are able to receive Covid-19 vaccines in the three largest cities of Georgia. Ambassador Colas noted that ‘the vaccination process in Georgia is being managed effectively.’