PM Garibashvili: no new lockdown planned
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has urged the public to receive coronavirus vaccines and not to trust anti-vaccine fake information. Photo: government of Georgia press office.
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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.’
He stated that ‘practically there are no deaths’ among individuals who have been innoculated.
I wish coronavirus vaccines to be available in all Georgian villages for the vaccination process to be possible on site,” Garibashvili said.
Garibashvili stated that the state economy grew by 12 per cent in the first six months of 2021 ‘which allowed us to boost the state budget by more than one billion GEL and not to take new loans.’
PM Garibashvili said that recent rallies in Tbilisi organised by journalists and the opposition led to the increase in new infections. Photo: Nino Alavidze/Agenda.ge.
He stated that if new restrictions are put in place the government will have to take loans ‘and later our citizens will have to pay them.’
Garibashvili said that the ‘irresponsible rallies’ over the past two weeks, connected with the death of a cameraman who was beaten by right-wing activists during Tbilisi Pride events in early July, triggered a surge in new infections.
Georgia reported 1,264 new cases of coronavirus on the weekend.
404,339 individuals have been vaccinated in the country so far. Only more than 140,000 of the 404,339 individuals have received their both doses of the vaccines.
Chinese Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines and the German-US Pfizer vaccines are available in the country currently.
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.
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.
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.
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.
40,553 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 23,242 of the 40,553 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 17,311 were PCR tests. The country has had 410,830 cases of coronavirus since February 26, 2020. 6.28 per cent of tested individuals had Covid-19 in the past 14 days.377,597 of the 410,830 patients have recovered, while 5,751 have died from the virus.
Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze has stated that mandatory vaccination for medical workers ‘is not planned at this stage.’
39,126 tests were conducted around the country in the past 24 hours. 21,777 of the 39,126 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 17,351 were PCR tests. The country has had 416,338 cases of coronavirus since February 26, 2020. 6.59 per cent of tested individuals had Covid-19 in the past 14 days.381,246 of the 416,338 patients have recovered, while 5,793 have died from the virus.
Individuals in Georgia will be able to receive Pfizer coronavirus vaccines not only in hospitals, but also in outpatient facilities, Deputy Georgian Health Minister Tamar Gabunia stated earlier today.
Georgia has reported 4,233 new cases of coronavirus earlier today. Currently 36,102 individuals remain infected with Covid-19 in the country.
Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated earlier today that another lockdown in Georgia would be ‘absolutely unjustified’ as the country has imported more than two million doses of coronavirus vaccine. Georgian government head noted that the lockdown won’t defeat the virus and underscored that mostly it is possible through vaccination.