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.’
The US Embassy to Georgia has tweeted:
STOP Covid-19, get vaccinated! Ambassadors of US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU Mission to Georgia call on all citizens to get vaccinated to protect themselves and their loved ones. pic.twitter.com/All9iRjA7M
— U.S. Embassy Tbilisi (@usingeo) August 16, 2021
Georgia received 500,000 doses of the Pfizer vaccine donated by the US in late July and 15,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine which were contributed by Lithuania.
The Embassy of Italy to Georgia has also tweeted:
STOP Covid 19, get vaccinated!
— Italy in Georgia (@ItalyinGeorgia) August 16, 2021
Ambassadors and Chargés d'Affaires of US, UK, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU Mission to Georgia call on all citizens to get vaccinated to protect themselves and their loved ones.#covid19 #Vaccines pic.twitter.com/0QOJNNdyGf
Belgium also announced in early August that it will donate doses of AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine to Georgia through the Covax platform (Covid-19 vaccines Global Access Facility) by the end of 2021.
Vaccination against Covid-19 in Georgia is available with the Pfizer, Sinopharm, Sinovac and AstraZeneca vaccines.
Foreign citizens residing in Georgia can also receive a coronavirus vaccine in the three largest cities of Georgia: Tbilisi, Kutaisi and Batumi.
A total of 238,871 people are fully vaccinated in Georgia which based on the data of Our World in Data amounts to about 5.94 per cent of the country’s population.