Georgian Health Minister: ‘capacity of intensive care beds for Covid-19 patients has reached its limit’
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“The bed capacity of intensive care units for Covid-19 patients has reached its limit”, Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze announced earlier today.
The Health Ministry is doing its best on a daily basis, however the capacity of intensive care beds for Covid-19 patients is decreasing. We [the public] should also take into account that doctors and nurses are very tired… They have been working in this difficult mode for almost two years”, said Tikaradze.
Minister Tikaradze also noted she believes in the prudence of the public to stand by the Ministry of Health and doctors and refrain from attending crowded events, which are the main source of infection.
Tikaradze said the vaccination process has significantly intensified in recent weeks in Georgia. She noted that over 19,000 individuals are being vaccinated against the coronavirus daily in the country.
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili stated yesterday that another lockdown in Georgia would be ‘absolutely unjustified as the country has imported more than two million doses of coronavirus vaccine’.
Mass Covid-19 immunisation is expected to start in Georgia in July, announces Head of the Georgian National Centre for Disease Control Amiran Gamkrelidze, adding that it does not mean that getting the vaccination against coronavirus will become mandatory.
The Delta variant currently accounts for over 80 per cent of Covid-19 cases in Georgia, while almost 100 per cent of infections recorded in Batumi and Tbilisi are Delta Covid-19 variants, said Deputy Director of the National Centre for Disease Control of Georgia (NCDC) Paata Imnadze earlier today.
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.
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.’
Health authorities have reported 4,216 new confirmed cases in Georgia along with 38 deaths over the past 24 hours.
Georgia has reported 3,344 new Covid-19 cases over the past 24 hours, with 30 deaths and the daily rate of vaccine jabs of 19,355.
Registration for the second dose of Pfizer vaccine will start on August 15, announces Deputy Health Minister Tamar Gabunia. She said that an average of 20,000 people a day have been vaccinated in the country over the last three days, which is 'a good indicator'.
Registration for the second dose of the Pfizer vaccine has started today in Georgia, while vaccination will begin on August 15. The registration is available via https://booking.moh.gov.ge. Georgian Deputy Health Minister Tamar Gabunia said that an average of 20,000 people a day have been vaccinated in the country over the last three days, which is 'a good indicator'.