Government working to bring in 2 million more doses of Pfizer
Georgia received 29,250 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in late March via the COVAX platform, and 500,000 doses donated by the United States in late July. Georgia has also purchased one million doses of the Pfizer vaccine that began coming in on July 17 in batches. Photo: Pfizer.
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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'.
Our epidemiologists tell us that September will be the biggest challenge for us and the healthcare system, while October will be a period of stability. Most importantly, it will allow us to not lock down the economy, shutting thousands of our citizens at home without an income or livelihood. We may impose local restrictions, but this should not affect the growth rate of the economy as a whole," he said.
Georgia received 29,250 doses of the Pfizer vaccine in late March via the COVAX platform, and 500,000 doses donated by the United States in late July. Georgia has also purchased one million doses of the Pfizer vaccine that began coming in on July 17 in batches.
The Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Sinovac and Sinopharm vaccines are currently available in Georgia.
As of August 25, a total of 719,380 people have been vaccinated with one dose in Georgia which is 25.2% of the adult population, while 318,912 people are fully vaccinated (11.2% of the adult population).
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.
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.
The delivery of one million doses of the Pfizer vaccines has already begun in Georgia, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili has announced. He said Georgia will be receiving the vaccines gradually every weekend enabling the population to register at booking.moh.gov.ge.
The Georgian government is negotiating with Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers and is going to import an additional one million doses of Pfizer in June or July, Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili said today.
Georgia has reported 4,031 new cases of coronavirus, 4,585 recoveries and 73 deaths in the past 24 hours. In total, 42,744 tests have been conducted around the country of which 25,358 tests were rapid tests, while the remaining 17,386 were PCR tests. Since February 26, 2020 Georgia has had 536,202 cases of coronavirus, 473,502 recoveries and 7,101 deaths.
Vaccination buses have begun rounds in the Varketili, Gldani and Station Square districts of Tbilisi today. A total of 10 vaccination buses will be on the road in Tbilisi, Georgian Health Minister Ekaterine Tikaradze announced today.