500k doses of Pfizer donated by US arrive in Georgia, registration starts at 12 p.m.
The Pfizer/BioNtech vaccine must be stored at a temperature of -70C. Photo: Getty Images
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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.
Georgian Prime Minister has tweeted:
On behalf of the Georgian people, I want to express our deep gratitude to @POTUS & the US government, our main strategic partner, for the generous donation of Pfizer vaccines to ????????. We are all in the fight against the pandemic together. pic.twitter.com/I07nO4PSYm
— Irakli Garibashvili (@GharibashviliGe) July 23, 2021
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili who welcomed the Pfizer arrival at Tbilisi International Airport said it is time to start an active campaign to encourage the population to get vaccinated.
I would like once again to call on our citizens to join the campaign and get vaccinated to protect our lives, our health, the health of our friends, parents, relatives, family members”, PM Garibashvili said.
US Ambassador to Georgia Kelly Degnan said “we are very pleased to be able to present these life-saving vaccines as a gift to the people of Georgia, as part of our strategic partnership’.
The United States has supported efforts to protect the health and safety of the people of Georgia since the very beginning of the pandemic. Now we are able to provide the one thing that can end this global crisis – a safe and effective vaccine”, Degnan stated.
Noting that she has already received both doses of the Pfizer vaccine, Ambassador Degnan calls on everyone eligible for the vaccine to register for vaccination, because as she said this is the best way to protect our health and restore the economy.
United States gifts 500,000 doses of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to Georgia.https://t.co/nxDUCzqLSg pic.twitter.com/4qlRZK4Mrm
— U.S. Embassy Tbilisi (@usingeo) July 23, 2021
Georgia received 29,250 doses of Pfizer vaccine in late March via the COVAX platform. The delivery of one million doses of the Pfizer vaccines has also begun in Georgia.
Individuals over 16 are eligible to receive the Pfizer vaccine in Georgia following the Georgian health minister's recent order.
Meanwhile, Georgia has also received 15,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine donated by Lithuania.
Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani has tweeted:
15 000 doses of #AstraZeneca Vaccine, allocated by the ???????? government, have been delivered to Tbilisi, ????????. A huge thank you to my colleague @GLandsbergis and all those involved in this process for their firm support and timely aid!
— David Zalkaliani (@DZalkaliani) July 24, 2021
The country is currently using Sinovac, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca and Pfizer vaccines for certain groups of individuals.
Foreigners living in Georgia will be able to receive Covid-19 vaccines, the Georgian Ministry of Labour and Health announced earlier today.
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.
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.
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.
Georgia has reported 2,061 new cases of Covid-19 after conducting a total of 31,204 tests over the last 24 hours. Out of the 2,061 new cases 1,030 were reported in the Georgian capital of 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.’
Georgia has reported 3,666 new cases of coronavirus over the past 24 hours which is a record high figure since January 2021. Seventeen individuals have died and 1,335 have recovered from Covid-19 over the past 24 hours. Georgia has reported 407,689 cases of coronavirus since February 26, 2020. 376,088 of the 407,689 individuals have recovered, while 5,731 have died from the virus. Almost 26,000 individuals remain infected with coronavirus in Georgia currently.
Georgia has reported two cases of Delta plus variant of coronavirus earlier today, while 40-50 per cent of the 3,666 patients who tested positive for Covid-19 in the past 24 hours had contracted the Delta variant, Georgian health officials stated earlier today.
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.
Belgium will donate doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Georgia through the Covax platform (Covid-19 vaccines Global Access Facility) by the end of 2021, the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced. First 168,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine will be sent to Ukraine and afterwards, 225,600 doses of the vaccine will be delivered to Kosovo, Armenia and Georgia, the Belgian ministry announced.
Ambassadors of the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU Mission to Georgia have called on Georgian citizens to get vaccinated ‘to protect themselves and their loved ones.'
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced today that the government is working to bring another 2 million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Georgia. He said that if the pace of vaccination continues at this rate 'we can expect 2 million people to be vaccinated by the end of September'.